Word: chekov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venerable D'Oyly Carte Opera Company made their first appearance in Manhattan. By the divine right of apostolic succession, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company is to Gilbert & Sullivan what Comedie Franchise is to Moliere, what Bayreuth is to Wagner, what the Moscow Art Theatre is to Chekov, what the Abbey Theatre is to Synge. But any number of things could turn the Savoyards' invasion of New York into a hopeless dispersion: overbilling, overconfidence or just plain cussedness on the part of U. S. critics and spectators...
...that she is promiscuous. Leander, "Bunny" to Marion, hears that Marion has agreed to write the story of her life, all of it. I say no more of plot, for you will very likely have guessed the logical ending of the first act; it is pleasant to realize that Chekov's type of comedy is still quite popular...
This selection concludes a successful year during which three plays were given. Before Cambridge audiences the players have put on George Bernard Shaw's difficult "Great Catherine," Ibsen's seldom-given "When We Dead Awaken," and the well-received "Uncle Vanya," by Chekov, which the Guild Theatre revived in New York last year...
...what lengths beings the wife of a professor will drive a leading lady. In "Uncle Vanya," which the Studio Players recently put on, and in "Hedda Gabbler", which Blanche Yurka opened Monday night, the lady becomes so bored with her existence that she makes a plot for Chekov or for Ibsen. Perhaps because, in the pattern of an older generation, there were no clubs or sports to keep women busy, or because they congenitally lacked any insight or interest in research before the days of women's colleges, their only outlet lay in society or love. Even today...
This evening at 8.15 o'clock in Brattle Hall the Studio Players will present "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekov. The production was given its Cambridge premier last evening in the Rogers Building before a limited audience composed of members and patrons of the Dramatic Club...