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Napi. Saxons imagine the Gauls to be the sexiest people; the Gauls modestly tender the palm to the Ottomans. It is natural, therefore, that Playwright Julius Berstl, a German, should have pictured Napoleon as a lecherous little character beloved by many beautiful women. It is also natural that the dramatist should have imagined that any other Frenchman who looked exactly like Napoleon would possess the same endearing attributes. The other Frenchman in Herr Berstl's play is small, goatlike Ernest Truex, who was last seen stamping around and fidgeting for Hortence Alden in Lysistrata...
That section of the population who would support plays of a higher calibre either go to New York to satisfy their theatrical appetites or else stay at home in Boston, repelled from the theatre by stupid and unnecessarily stringent censorship. It is useless to blame the producers or the dramatist if the city insists upon emasculating nearly every play that ventures into this frigid atmosphere...
Owen Davis, prominent dramatist and often called the dean of American playwrights, will give a lecture on "The Theater of Today from an Insider's Point of View" in Harvard Hall, room 1 today at 4 o'clock. All Harvard and Radcliffe students are invited to attend the lecture, which is being held under the auspices of the Cambridge School of Drama...
...published by W. W. Norton and the American-Scandinavian Foundation late in March. Coming from Ibsen's birth-place, Skien, the author is intimately aware of the Ibsen traditions. And as editor of Ibsen's letters published during his life had exceptional opportunities for conferring with the dramatist...
...there is of it, is so typically Sahvian in his worst moments that it is excusable only as a commentary on Mr. Shaw. Of these the world has already seen more than enough. In other words, the picture is just another expression of Shaw the showman rather than the dramatist...