Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicagoans will pay to see. But the Institute's play-choosing committee will not Broadwayize the Goodman repertoire below the level of New York's Theatre Guild. Titles being considered for next year: Hedda Gabler, The Would Be Gentleman, Anna Christie, The Goat Song, Milestones, Rebound, The Firebrand...
...striking suggestion was that of Constance Collier, 52, big, throaty English actress (The Firebrand, Our Betters, Serena Blandish, The Matriarch). Like many another talented person, notably Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin (now retired), Miss Collier suffers when dogs suffer.* Suggested she last week: "If vivisection is so necessary, why not experiment upon persons who break the laws instead of upon animals...
Children of Darkness. History is apt to make the ladies of bygone centuries seem lovelier than our own. and the scamps of other times appear far more appealing in their outrageousness than contemporary racketeers. Playwright Edwin Justus Mayer (The Firebrand), always partial to historical gloss, has developed his newest play from suggestions given by the late great Novelist Henry Fielding in History of the Life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great. The scene is laid in the house of Mr. Snap, gaoler of London's Newgate Prison, in the year 1725. It is Mr. Snap...