In Love With Love

              Comedy Success
In Love With Love

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In Love with Love
THIS comedy in three acts is the acknowledged masterpiece of Vincent Lawrence, one of the most brilliant of America's younger playwrights.  The play combines love and comedy so effectively that it entertained overflow audiences for six months at the Ritz Theatre in New York City.  It would have remained longer, but for the fact that previous bookings compelled its transfer to Chicago, where it also enjoyed a lengthy and profitable stay.

The development of the plot reveals a radical difference between the girl who is in love with love and the young woman who is in love with a man.  The theme is treated from its humorous angle rather than from its serious side.  Its types are so true to life that the scene of action might well be laid in any American community.



STORY OF THE PLAY
In Love with Love has to do with Ann Jordan, a beautiful girl who thinks she is having too much fun to contemplate marriage.  But the ardor of two of her suitors forces a decision.  One of the young men, Robert Metcalfe, is a charming but not very competent youngster with plenty of money.  The other suitor, Frank Oakes, is a go-getter who already has been taken into partnership in his firm.  Ann thinks that she loves Bobby and allows him to seal their engagement in the usual manner.  And yet, on the very same night, she permits herself to become engaged to Frank.


Shortly after, a third young man, Jack Gardner, enters the arena of affection.  The diffident Bobby has brought along Jack to help him plead his cause.  Jack is a bridge builder and Ann's father is helping him win the award of a big contract.  Disgusted with the bullying egotism of Frank and the infantile ravings of Bobby, Ann falls really and truly in love with the work-engrossed engineer.  The capricious girl with her ready laughter is gone and there emerges the woman, suffering for her love, and determined to use her every resource to win the man she really wants.

Bobby and Frank end their long-standing grudge in a dramatic battle which results in their ejection from Ann's house.  She sees no other way of winning the apparently disinterested Jack, so gets down upon her knees before him and confesses her love.  He turns upon her, denounces her for her philandering and refuses to be her third victim.  But just at this yoint Ann gets her chance to prove that she is really in love with Jack and not merely In Love with Love.  The end is surprisingly effective and amusing.  By one of the author's brilliant twists the coquettish young Ann desperately, but deliciously and humorously, builds a bridge to the heart of the young engineer.



NEW YORK AND CHICAGO COMMENTS

If audiences do not like In Love with Love, then audiences are all wrong and should be immediately abolished.—
Heywood Broun, New York World.



Entertaining all the way through.  Scenes come to life and stand on the stage as something true and fresh and engaging.—
Alexander Woollcott, New York Herald.


As delicate as a cobweb and yet as clean and strong as a cable.  Go and see In Love with Love and you will have one of the happiest times of your life.—
Robert G. Welsh, New York Telegram.


A bright, ingratiating, well-acted comedy.  Plenty of laughs and smiles.—
Stephen Rathbun, New York Sun.


In Love with Love has a personality of its own which should not be altered, not even by the author of Romeo and Juliet.—
Chicago Post.


Here is a comedy that is a sure-fire hit because it contains about every element that will appeal to those who like fun unspoiled by sophistication, and to whom youth in characteristic action is like the bouquet of a rare old vintage.—
Chicago Journal of Commerce.


In Love with Love is a real comedy, delightfully written.  It is as clean as snow and as humorous as love itself.—
Chicago Herald-Examiner.


One of the most ringing successes of the year.—
Chicago News.




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