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...Barn Dance Featured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTING CLUB JOIN GIRLS ON SKI TRIP | 1/15/1941 | See Source »

...Tell Aunty," said the borrowed British poster. What some officials, longing for the camouflage and comforts of secrecy, forgot last week was the first lesson that small boys learn. Aunty always found out what went on behind the barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: The Current | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

They both had good English accents. They carried papers to prove that they were Dutch refugees from the Nazis, but they did not play the refugee game. They hid in a cave on a lonely stretch of coast, or slipped from dark barn to thick forest to empty warehouse, peeking, listening, taking notes. At night they crawled into lonely hedgerows, unpacked two small leather cases containing a wireless transmitter, and sent whatever they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: Agents Without Honor | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Thonnton Wilder's informal, unconventional "Our Town" is particularly adapted to the atmosphere of the remodeled old Barn Theatre. The simplicity of the play fits the simplicity of the Playhouse. There is no scenery except two arched trellises, pushed onto the stage as director Edwin Burr Pettet said, "for those who think they have to have scenery." A few chairs, two tables, a couple of ladders and a board are the frugal furnishings, images created in the minds of the audience by Mr. Petter's homely descriptions and the pantomime of the rest of the cast build the streets, houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/26/1940 | See Source »

...story centers about a summer theatre in Stockton, Connecticut, and is an uninspired and rather dull account of the tribulations of combining tempermental stars, feverish amateurs, and stuffy patronesses in one undersized barn. Bert Lytell and Mady Christians play the roles of the guest stars--but they act as if they thought they were the guests at the Copley as well as at Stockton, playing their parts purely on instinct and experience, with a singular lack of originality or enthusiasm. Most of their supporting cast show a vast amount of the enthusiasm the stars lack--but very little else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

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