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...Willmott Lewis, newly knighted Washington correspondent of the London Times, gave a party for the purpose of playing MURDER. Directress of the ?ame: his sister-in-law, Frances Noyes Hart (The Bellamy Trial, Hide in the Dark). Rules of the game: two players are chosen as "detectives," sent from the room while lots are drawn to determine who shall be the "murderer." Then the lights are turned out, the "murderer" picks and "assassinates'' his victim. The lights are turned on and the "detectives" examine the "corpse," question the witnesses. All are bound to tell the truth except...
...Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov has been seen in Manhattan as recently as 1928, at the Civic Repertory Theatre" It is now presented by the American Laboratory Theatre, small, highbrow, student-subscription organization, and serves to introduce its new directress Maria Germanova, late of the Moscow Art Theatre. Perhaps the greatest exposition of the horrors of ennui, it introduces three daughters of a deceased Russian army officer who are compelled to remain in a slumbrous provincial town when they long for the bright Moscow of their imagination. Irina slowly shrivels a's she teaches school. Olga's devoted...
...character, a coiled complex of frailty and nobility, such as his creator Tolstoy and that other great Russian, Dostoievsky, were particularly apt to conceive. As acted by Jacob Ben-Ami and a large company of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre (including a witty bit by the directress herself), most of the values of this celebrated tragedy are apparent. Egon Brecher's depiction of Alexandrov, an artistic hobo with delusions of grandeur, is an uproarious triumph if you can overlook its tragic perspectives...
Rebuttal came neither from Lady Nancy Astor M. P. (Conservative) nor from Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield M. P. (Laborite), but from Britain's biggest businesswoman, Viscountess Rhondda. the "Coal Queen of Wales," Directress of Cambrian Colleries Ltd.; a peeress in her own right and therefore ineligible to sit in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords...
...curtain speech before the performance on the opening night the directress of the production explained that the stilted acting and formal speech throughout would in all probability seem strange and exaggerated, but that in reality it was only very slightly overdone. It may be that she was correct in her statement, but it seemed to us that there was a very noticeable emphasis on the sweeping gestures which was being put on for effect almost entirely. The effect was produced and had a very happy result as far as this reviewer was concerned at least. It was unquestionably amusing...