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...Money" and "The Hot Patata." Hoarse-voiced Jimmie Durante, as a college professor at Sing Sing, is advised by Hope Williams: "You've got to shoot your way to freedom!" Says he: "Who is this guy Friedman, a lawyer?" The New Yorkers provides a long and entertaining evening. Alison's House. Susan Glaspell has written a play about famed Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86) for Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. Playwright Glaspell's Emily Dickinson is Alison Stanhope, who lived not in Massachusetts but in Iowa. However, both Alison and Emily made their trips...
Aside from the repertoire of 20 plays which have been presented in the past and will be put on again, seven new pieces will be on view during Civic Repertory's coming season: Siegfried by Jean Giraudoux; Alison's House by Susan Glaspell (based on the life of Emily Dickinson); Alice in Wonderland; Gruach and Ardvor-lich's Wife by Gordon Bottomley; Noble Prize by Hjalinar Bergman; Rosmersholm by Ibsen...
...Princes and princesses were numerous in Tsarist Russia. As Oxford's scholarly Walter Alison Phillips wrote before the War: "The Russian title of 'prince' (knyaz) implies undoubted descent from the great reigning houses of Russia, Poland and Lithuania; but the title descends to all male children, none of whom is entitled to represent it par excellence. There may be three or four hundred princes bearing the same distinguished name; of these some may be great nobles, but others are not seldom found in quite humble capacities-waiters or droshky-drivers. The title in itself.has little social value...
Editor is Alison Reppy, Professor of Law at N. Y. U. Advisors include, besides law teachers, practicing aviation and radio attorneys-John William Davis, William Patterson MacCracken, Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Warren Jefferson Davis. Also William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan, onetime (1925-28) Assistant to the Attorney-General; Manton Davis, General Attorney for Radio Corp. of America; Louis G. Caldwell, onetime Chairman of the Federal Radio Commission...
...lady's husband is in turn involved with Mr. Warwick's wife and the virgin moves safely toward matrimony with a gracious man-about-town. The bedroom doors are all well oiled; they function silently, ceaselessly. What philosophy the play contains issues from the mouth of matronly Alison Skipworth as a Long Island Wife of Bath. Early in the evening she observes: "There is a spirit of unrest in the air, and one feels the breath of Eros blowing in from the garden." Later she delivers a homily on the piquancy of Victorian underwear. She also says...