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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive staff is always unbending in its rules; the period previous to 1924 saw the Club presenting only plays of foreign authors, never before produced in America; the next few years introduced authors of this nation, but slowly turned from straight drama given by students to a semi-professional cast and a repertory either sensational or frankly song-and-dance. The disturbances of last December caused, for this season at least, the abolition of outside aid, but they have also resulted in further depreciation of the value of the Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST-OFF BUSKIN | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...deals with elemental emotions, this play, with a simplicity that is devastating. It is as fine a series of psychological studies as one will find outside a casebook. And it has the added benefit of perfect interpretation. Its British cast leaves nothing to be asked. Particularly effective are Jack Hawkins, Leon Quartermaine, Colin Keith-Johnson, Derek Williams and Victor Stanlev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Buckaroo. "With a cast of 60," the billboards announce proudly. That may be the trouble. Getting a cast of 60 on and off the stage is a task in itself. By the time it is accomplished in this play little time is left for the plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...large cast two members stand out: Nydia Westman, as a flip but honest showgirl, and Clyde Dilson, as a suave but unpleasant Chicago gunman. There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...despise votes cast with mental reservations!" cried Il Duce in Rome on the day before election. "Nobody should delude himself that he will be able to place an eventual ephemeral lien on the future development of the regime through a handful of ballots, as the regime of tomorrow will be more of a totality than yesterday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Yess | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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