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Lady Dedlock. It is hard to make plays out of Dickens. Nonetheless, famed Margaret Anglin thought quite correctly that Bleak House contained the material for a drama and she ordered Paul Kester to trim it into shape. This he tried hard to do; and Actress Anglin played his piece in the provinces, gradually improving it. Last week she thought it was fit for Broadway, and played it there...
...Margaret Anglin, famed actress, in Philadelphia, hurt her foot. Therefore she resigned from the cast of Macbeth as produced by George C. Tyler, with scenery designed by famed Gordon Craig. Florence Reed, famed actress who has only once played a Shakespearian role, succeeded her when Macbeth opened in Washington, prior to engagements in Manhattan, Boston and elsewhere...
...will at last be made public on the stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans a "musicalization" of Alice in Wonderland. George C. Tyler will produce Macbeth with Margaret Anglin, Lyn Harding and settings by Gordon Craig. Anne Nichols threatens with Abie's Children and a musical version of Just Married. Florenz Ziegfeld has enticed Ina Claire back into the musical comedy from which she started. Alexander Moissi, late of Reinhardt's troupe, will appear, under the joint...
...sequences of thought apparently so divergent as the Stadium and Miss Margaret Anglin seem to have no meeting place that is not the result of hyper liberalizing the meanings of each. There has been headline material in both within the past two days: the Stadium in the settled matter of wooden seats. Miss Anglin in her plan to produce the Electra of Sophocles in the Greek temple of Roger Williams Park in Providence. Connection between these unlikes lies in the out of door drama, of which Miss Anglin is now America's greatest exponent, and of which the Stadium...
...Percy Mackaye to go Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced in the Greek Temple of Berkeley, California, out of door stage of the University of California. Thus the fear of commercialism, natural suspicion when the stage touches the college closely, is a bugaboo of timidity, rather than a corollary common to all such intimacies...