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Shakespearean Directrix Margaret Webster who also did Evans's Richard II, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I, has done her usual best by the Bard. Stewart Chancy has designed Italianate landscapes that loom softly behind the players. Paul Bowles, among the up-&-coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...
Bert Lytell gives a savory performance as the ham and Evelyn Varden is comic as the fat directrix of the players who rehearses to the refrain of "Nuts in May, nuts in May!" a dance intended to enliven one of the morbid dramas of Chekhov. But as a whole this supposedly sparkling little vehicle by the author of the 1934 comedy hit Personal Appearance gives off about as much electricity as a horse...
...replace Anita Colombo, able directrix of La Scala Opera in Milan who lost her job last month, partly because of her friendship with anti-Fascist Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Sept. 28), a rich Venetian and pioneer Fascist was appointed: Erardo Trentinaglia. Esteemed in Italy as a composer and conductor, Signor Trentinaglia planned first to shorten La Scala's season, cut down on novelties...
Visiting Eva Le Gallienne, actress-directrix of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre, on her farm near W'eston, Conn., was her good friend Actress Josephine Hutchinson. They went to the basement with a maid to light the gas water heater. The heater exploded, knocked Miss Le Gallienne unconscious, burned her and Miss Hutchinson severely. The maid, also scorched, ran for the gardener. The gardener put out the flames, took the three women to Norwalk hospital. The maid was found not seriously injured, the actresses will recover without disfigurement...
...Gallienne, founder-directrix of the Civic Repertory Theatre, was last week looking for a pig. She had to have one for her friend Josephine Hutchinson to carry when she plays Alice in Wonderland. A complete search of Manhattan's pet shops failed to reveal a suitable animal so Miss Le Gallienne wrote to the press about it. What she wanted was a pig that would not grow into a hog during the course of the play's run. She preferred a quiet animal that could make its public appearance without wiggling, kicking, snorting. An occasional squeal would...