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Provincetown Theatre. Messrs. Eugene O'Neill (dramatist), Robert Edmond Jones (artist) and Kenneth Macgowan (author) have rounded out their best experimental bill to date and have established the place of their little theatre-doing things well that would not be done at all-anywhere else...
Referring to the great Bolshevik playwright, a critic contended that the author explains in the preface the intended inner revolutionary meanings of the play. But how wide is the gulf between Lunacharsky, as a prefacial explainer, and Lunacharsky as a dramatist. The play is based on sex and mysticism-religious mysticism at that...
...fine dramatic picture, artistically conceived, realistically executed. But we ask whether there is not yet a third Lunacharsky addition to the prefacial exponent and the dramatist- Lunacharsky the Bolshevik Commissioner of Education and head of the censorship-and whether the latter doesn't think this production of our national proletarian theatre needs a heavy dose of blue pencil...
Holzinger is the authority for the statement that Karel Capek, the Czechoslovakian dramatist, used the word "Viec" in his title which, translated literally, means "thing". Realizing that "The Makropoulos Thing" was a meaningless title, Holzinger translated it "Affair". Theatrical reviews in London and New York papers have called it "Case". The Dramatic Club considered neither title was entirely adequate, and at Holzinger's suggestion "Secret" was substituted...
...dramatic miscegenation will shortly be enacted in the Provincetown Playhouse, Manhattan, by a brilliant Negro named Paul Robeson and a brilliant white named Mary Blair. The producers are the Provincetown Players, headed by Eugene O'Neill, dramatist; Robert Edmund Jones, artist, and Kenneth Macgowan, author. Many white people do not like the idea. Neither do many black...