Word: dybbuk
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...Manhattan, the endowed Neighborhood Playhouse, introducer to the U. S. of The Dybbuk and other famed plays, announced that it would close its doors at the close of the current season, pending material expansion prompted by success...
Pure Hebrew is the speech of the stage when the Habima presents, and in this tongue four pieces will be presented. They are, -- "The Golem;" "Jacob's Dream;" "The Dybbuk;" and "The Eternal Jew." As in the case of the Moscow Art Theatre, knowledge of the language of the players is by no means necessary; the astounding effects make their impression regardless. Such men as Maxim Gorky, Stanislavsky, Ghaliapin and Lenin have been won to the cause of the Habima at their first performance, and it is due to the ardent championing of these men that the Habima has survived...
...Dybbuk-Reviewed this week...
...Dybbuk. Last week only four plays opened. Two of these were The Dybbuk, and were ushered in by repertory companies...
Brought to Manhattan last year by the Neighborhood Players (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925) this play based upon an old Jewish legend quickly won fame and riches. The "dybbuk" is the spirit of a departed youth. It takes its strange abode in the heart of a Jewess, keeping alive in her perturbed breast the love she bore the spirit when it possessed a body of its own. Priestly folk would exorcise the disturber in the interests of sensible matrimony to a wealthy wooer. But with shrieks and groans the ghostly lover wages a sturdy, though mystical, battle for the lady...