When a play has been produced six nights a week in New York for something like fifteen months there is little left that can be said about it. The mere fact that it has had such a long run should indicate that there is at least something good about it. In fact, a fifteen month run seems to assure one that there must be quite a bit of good about it, in it, and all through it.

"Strictly Dishonorable" has shown that its a comedy of modern American life it is quite supreme. Preston Strugess has injected into the one and only good play that he has written a most pleasing balance of humor and satire that makes one chuckle and laugh out loud alternately for three acts. He deals with a somewhat risque theme in a very restrained manner. In fact the whole play is delicately fine and thoroughly pleasant throughout.

The company that brings "Strictly Dishonorable" to Boston does thorough justice to the play. The innocent but charming Isabel, who weakens at the sight of a handsome Italian Count is played by Flobelle Fairbanks, cousin to the daring Douglas. She makes one realize that Yoakum, Mississippi is still to be visited by her, but she gets across the idea that it is more pleasant to be bad in a speakeasy than good in East Orange, New Jersey with considerable amount of restrained passion. (It really only takes a bit of common sense to come to that conclusion.) The amiable old judge and Count Di Ruvo are also portrayed with a good deal of perfection.

Unfortunately some of the cleverest lines in the play (and there are quite a number) have been changed or deleted to comply with the Boston purity laws but the dialogue nevertheless sparkles.