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More sad, if possible, would have been his looks had he been aware that life, for all princes a prison, is cruel especially to a prince of basset hounds. Had he, last week, been carried from his country kennel to Madison Square Garden, where the 52nd Annual Dog Show of the Westminster Kennel Club was in progress, his sensitive heart must have trembled with the terror that afflicts a small boy when he is taken, for the first time, to school. Unlike poodles or pomeranians, basset hounds are not pleased by admiring stares; they prefer running in the fields...
Earth. The second production by the young insurgents (TIME, March 14) at the 52nd Street Theatre is more conventional in stage mechanics, though thoroughly "arty" in its choice of subject-the Southern U. S. Negro. Author Em Jo Basshe is by birth Russian, which is merely incidental to the fact that he has not lived long among the blacks. Therefore, it is not strange that his main character, a woman who is torn between voodoo magic and hysterical Christianity, distracted by the death of her six children, driven finally to loud rebellion against all the Powers of Destiny, should represent...
...Play-wrights-John Dos Passos, John Howard Lawson, Francis Faragoh., Michael Gold, Em Jo Basshe-impatient with the restraint of conventional theatre, have set up one of their own, bolstered up by the generous purse of Otto Hermann Kahn. Here, at old Bim's, now the 52nd Street Theatre, they propose to experiment with those radical dramatic forms of whose marketability the commercial producers are suspicious...
...Guild, West 52nd St.,--As Jacques Copeau, one of the greatest directors of which the present day theatre can boast, has directed this, his own version, of the Dostoevsky play, it can't help being good. Clare Eames and Alfred Lunt see to it that Copeau is not slighted on the acting...
...Temple Emanu-El at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave. and 65th St. was sold, not by Vincent Astor as you reported, but by Benjamin Winter, who bought the famous Astor residence last spring. He also is the present owner of the historic W. K. Vanderbilt mansion at 52nd St. and Fifth Ave., described in your same issue...