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Lord Dunsany, famed Irish romantic, 18th Baron Dunsany, poet, dramatist & man of letters, arrived to revisit the U. S. last week for the first time since...
...bankrupt merchant in the small Norwegian town of Skien. As a boy Henrik Ibsen was apprenticed to an apothecary and helped to grind powders, make pills and mix possets. Because he did not stick to that trade, but became a great poet and a greater dramatist, all Norway united, last week, to honor his birth-cen tenary with impressive ceremonies and revivals of his greatest plays at Oslo, Norwegian capital, and in Bergen, the sea port where he lived and labored for the theatre in his early years...
George Kelly is not the kind of dramatist one reads, except as a way to remember Judith Anderson in the part of Tony. But only when one reads him does realization come of the tremendous dependence that Kelly places on his leading ladies to make the feminine small talk "go". The small talk of George Kelly is more real than it has a right to be, and therefore more footling than ever the wasted words of life when entrusted to the hands of poor actors...
...play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their money and who are forced to say farewell to the house they have lived in and the orchard they have loved, is merely an illustration of what a great dramatist can do with the theme of miser, mortgage, and out you go. There is no reason why it should be intoned, as if the stage were the rostrum in the U. S. Senate, with foolish, solemn wheezings. Only Edward Rigby, as the old butler who lies down at the last...
Reported Engaged. Michael Arlen, whose name used to be Dikran Kuyumjian, famed Mayfair novelist, dramatist, popularizer of green hats; to Countess Atlanta Mercati, daughter of Count Alexander Mercati, onetime Lord Chamberlain to a King of Greece...