THE MASKED BALL AT THE CRITERION
... - . I .- I . I . 1 1 . . - I There are many playgoers to whom comedy is delightful-good comedy, bien entendu-but farce distasteful. The distinction is not hard to under- stand if, with Mr. William Archer, we call farces pieces the primary aim of which, from first to last, is not to depict life but to provoke laughter, everything in them being devised and manipulated to that end-truth being ...