SOURCE: A review of Dinner at Eight, in Sociology and Social Research, Vol. XVII, January, 1933, p. 297.

In the following review, Nickel favorably assesses the characters and plot of Dinner at Eight.

George S. Kaufman will get you if you don't watch out. He has a discerning eye that quickly penetrates the veneer of politeness and convention, and a sharp pen that delights in scratching this surface to reveal the selfish struggle within. Among his victims have been the theater in his Royal Family, Hollywood in Once in a Lifetime, national politics in Of Thee I Sing, and now with the aid of Edna Ferber is added the upper quartile of New York society in Dinner at Eight.

The theme with modification might be any dinner party. A cross section is taken of every one involved from the kitchen help to the guests of honor. On the surface all...