Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest venture in the dramatic field in Boston,--the Stage Guild. This organization, which is now beginning its third week at the Peabody Play House, plans to produce, for two weeks each a number of plays which would otherwise never be seen outside of New York. Such plays as "Ambush", with which the Guild opened its season, "March Hares", which it is playing with great success at present, "The Deluge", by Henning Berger, and Philip Moeler's "Sophie", which are coming in the next month, would never find their way to any of the larger Boston theatres. Only a limited...
...Stage Guild, the newest dramatic organization of Boston, has followed up its initial success in "Ambush" with a most delightful presentation of "March Hares", by Harry. Wagstaff Gribble. "March Hares", as its title indicates, is a play of temperamentalists, of deadly serious extremists without the slightest saving spark of humor. The most extreme, most serious, most temperamental of them all is Geoffrey Wareham; the most dynamic, intense teacher of elocution who ever upset a household, The household, we might explain, consists of Mrs. Rodney, who tries hard to keep her equilibrium amid the general confusion her daughter Janet, the fiancee...
...taken the Peabody Playhouse at 357 Charles Street for three months. There they will produce plays of the newer, fresher sort, that within easy recollection were novel and successful in New York; that no other hands are likely to bring hither. They are now making a beginning with "Ambush," as truthful, human, moving tragedy, in little and around the corner, as an American playwright has written. They so stage and act the piece that it barely falls short of the original performances in New York by the Theatre Guild. Fast are audiences held. A light sophisticated comedy, Harry Gribble...
...seeks the Peabody Playhouse even at a little inconvenience and, one by one, lays its dollar on the sill of the box-office. (For so modest and considerate is the price.) As obviously, the Guild cannot depend upon the ordinary playgoing public hereabouts. Otherwise, "regular" theatres would be housing "Ambush" and "March Hares" Little interested in so serious, sane, unselfish an undertaking are the highbrows by trademark. Encouragement in word, support in deed, must come from that younger public which would take its pleasure in the theatre, but would have that pleasure intelligent, candid, of life as it goes here...
...FOOTNOTE *General Collins was killed on August 22, 1922, by rebel in ambush, near Bandon, County Cork, in the 41st year of his life...