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...year the opera house was built for the fun of pretentious gold miners, Norwegian Dramatist Henrik Ibsen sat down to write a play about Nora Helmer, a pampered, naive little wife who commits forgery to get money when her husband is sick, gets such a taste of the world that she leaves home to find out what life is really like. This play, A Doll's House, was presented in Central City's old theatre last week. Nora Helmer was played by sly, small Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who scored a huge personal success last year in a revival...
Hans Bartsch, Berlin theatrical producer who owns the Central European rights to Dodsworth, wrote to the U. S. agent of the author and the dramatist of the play, asking for a letter certifying that they were of Aryan descent. Without it, the Reich Theatre Council would not let the show appear in Germany. Author and dramatist replied to Producer Bartsch as follows...
...This scripture, like Mr. Green's, is not to be found in the Bible. The dramatist Sophocles wrote: "Those whom Zeus would destroy he first makes mad," repeating an ancient Greek adage...
...author of Actor Meredith's last two successes, Winterset and High Tor, quickly soothed managerial feelings. "The Theatre," said Maxwell Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost...
...company -the girls from Gimbel's, the owner's radical daughter and conservative son, the exhausted Jews, the adulterous Irish-take or reject Obediah's offer of escape, how they react to the sudden necessity of facing their inmost problems, is a situation ably handled by Dramatist Wolfson. Hitherto known as an adapter of Left propaganda plays, in Excursion he exhibits a notable capacity for original characterization and narrative. Without sacrificing any of his play's moral values, he manages to bring the Happiness back into New York Harbor after a wild night off Sandy Hook...