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Bernard Granville is fourth on the bill, his second week at the Palace. The routine is almost entirely new for the current week with a recitation added for both the returning soldiers and those who remained in France dead. Granville is an artist to his linger tips, but he should show better judgment than rendering a memoriam in rhyme to those who made the big sacrifice. This type of verse doesn't belong in the theatre where the attendance in part is composed of mourners, A practical illustration of the possible effect such incidents might have occurred at the Palace Monday night when an elderly woman, bearing a wide mourning band with a gold star on her left arm, wept quietly through the recitation and abruptly left the house following Granville's retirement. She, like many others, had probably selected the theatre as a medium of temporary forgetfulness. . But Granville brought her right back to the bier of her son. and then he broke right into a comedy vein that probably made matters
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Variety, 54:8 (04/18/1919)