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...Garrick Gaieties. The students of the Theatre Guild have suddenly burst all decorum's bonds and produced an impudent revue. It is full of youth, energy and fine flashes of wit. Costumes and scenery it overlooks. It is a trifle amateur in spots. Special Sunday performances will be given until the subscribers and the less incurious public have completed their inspection...
...lecture was an attempt, by means of slides, to give Botsonians an idea of the scope and value of the largest theatre collection in the world. He traced the rise of the theatre in England and America from the Elizabethan days of the Garrick down through Edmund Kean and Sir Henry Irving to the twentieth century with Cyril Maude and Julia Marlowe...
...Theatre Guild grew out of such a movement, to wit, the Washington Square Players, who led a desultory corporate existence and disbanded at the War's outbreak. Some of the Players came together in 1919, started afresh as the Guild, began producing in the Garrick Theatre. Theatreland cocked its eye at John Ferguson by St. John Ervine, the Guild's second offering; kept the eye cocked when Masefield's The Faithful and Ervine's Jane Clegg appeared the next year; declared that the "art theatre" had achieved new and notable dimensions in the U. S. when...
Ernst Vajda will arive to see four of his plays presented, counting Fata Morgana which the Theatre Guild now has at the Garrick. Ina Claire and Bruce McRae are rehearsing Grounds for Divorce; Belasco has Harem, described as a recklessly risqué farce: and Gilbert Miller a piece termed at present The High...
...little." There are interesting photographs of architectural projects as well as the architectural manifestations of the exposition itself. The art of the Theatre is more historical than contemporary in import, as Gordon Craig, Lovat Eraser and others of the modern theorists are absent. There are contemporary drawings of David Garrick, and stage designs by John Webb and Inigo Jones, 1650, a Shakespeare first folio, the program of an amateur performance of the Merry Wives in which Dickens and Cruikshank took part, and delightful models of the old theatres which help to swell the interest in this section. The pictures merely...