The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1940

The worst early fall for drama in Broadway's memory continued last week with the opening of two bad plays, Beverly Hills and Quiet Please. They were both about Hollywood. They might as well have been about Brooklyn or Burma. Their chief concern was not with the film colony's peculiarities, but with the world enterprise, adultery. It proved not very amusing.

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