The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 31, 1927

The Ivory Door. A play which may perhaps grow dear to high school graduating classes galled critics. In it they saw the doleful spectre of A. A. Milne burlesquing himself unconsciously. The Ivory Door, shockingly sweet, extracted from flabby matrons purrs of "adorable."

The story tells of a prince who went through the mysterious portals of the title and came back a human being. A beautiful princess is properly provided. Searching reality, the prince has found romance. His people, viciously resenting his likeness to themselves rather than to their cherished fancy of...

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