Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Button J. Edward Bromberg Will Parrott Morris Carnovsky Adah Menken Stella Adler Adam Keane Walter Coy Jessie Sargent Margaret Barker Lon Firth Alexander Kirkland Guy, Jr. Sanford Meisner...
...opening scene discloses Guy Button seated amongst the roaring denizens of the "Mantic" barroom, San Francisco's gaudiest. Even through this smoky atmosphere, Button sees his destiny writ large, and he decides to jump ship, revealing a rather dubious moral resiliency as he double-sells his boots and oil-skins to two less ambitious purchasers. Of a sudden the swearing and noise of glasses are awed to silence by the flouncing entrance of Adah Menken, a beautiful Jewish actress. Impressed by this lady, Button snatches her shawl, leaps back, and shouts ". . . Now, I'm part...
Fortified with this spirit, Button has no great trouble in making the name of "Gold Eagle Guy" a power on the Pacific. He transports Chinese labor, marries his partner's fiance, and sails with brazen keel over all opposition. Faced in 1898 with ruinous Japanese competition, he steals government bullion from one of his own vessels, then scuttles her to conceal the deed. It is not money for which Button lusts, however, but rather power, and the ability to create. His faith in himself is colossal, and like Jeremiah, he shrouds all his actions in a sort of Old Testament...
...first play, "Gold Eagle Guy" by promising. It has vigor and dramatic power enough, but as an epic it lacks point. Guy Button, skilfully portrayed by J. Edward Bromberg, stands forth in the round, but his character is not of adequate significance to dovetail insaneness of pageantry. The number of minor characters is so bewilderingly large that mention of their respective merit is here impossible. But the "atmosphere" scenes are well and convincively done. The settings, designed by Donald Oenslager, elicited applause that was justly due, and the richness of the costumes bespeaks a rather optimistic attitude toward the play...
PEACE WITH HONOUR-A. A. Milne- Button ($2). A whimsical, sentimental author comes out strong for disarmament...