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Tin Pan Alley is another melodrama on the Broadway formula. It forgets to flounder because 1) Claudette Colbert is a very fine actress, 2) John Wray is a very fine actor. Miss Colbert is the heroine who conquers the evils of light life. Mr. Wray is the Napoleon of high gangdom, who says: "Ah, jeeze," and "Ah, whot duh hell."
The Final Balance. In Greenwich Village, Manhattan, ideas are withdrawn from the mind's fire when only half cooked and then impudently offered to theatre-goers. David Pinski began wondering about the exaggerated importance of money; he fancied a world gone mad and a merchant profiting from its madness. At this point in its development the play was presented, profitlessly, with E. J. Ballantine as the merchant.