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...saloon. Bustled women and men in ancient beavers crowded the narrow street in front of Central City's opera house, watched Frederic McFarlane present the keys of the house to Chancellor Frederick Maurice Hunter of the University of Denver. Then they all filed inside to see woebegone Actress Lillian Gish perform in the sad, sad story of Camille...
Foreign Affairs (by Paul Hervey Fox & George Tilton; Kamsler & Fuller, producers). A great many people admire the slick urbanity of Osgood Perkins; many more are titillated by the romantic comedy of Henry Hull; others like to watch Dorothy Gish purse her mouth. Foreign Affairs, with all three of these favorites in it, should therefore afford capital fun to playgoers in considerable numbers...
Scene is laid in an inn in the Italian Tyrol, whither two lovers (Miss Gish and Mr. Hull) have foregathered for a blissful fortnight. To their horror they discover that the lady's husband has become aware of his cuckoldry, is expected to arrive soon. Just ahead of him arrives the great Otto Zeigen, the Rumanian millionaire (Mr. Perkins). That gives the amorists their chance to trick the husband once again. Actress Gish sets out to ensnare Zeigen, Actor Hull tries to charm a kitchen maid (porcelain-faced Jean Arthur of the films). Neither has much success at first...
...Uncle Vanya" was presented last year in New York by the Theatre Guild, when it was produced by Jed Harris, with title roles being played by Lillian Gish and Eugene Powers. The closed performance given last evening in the Rogers Building for the Dramatic Club constituted an experiment for the Studio Players, who until the building was taken over by the Dramatic Club had not had an opportunity in play there. This evening's performance will find the New York company back on the stage in Brattle Hall...
...Uncle Vanya" was given last year by the Theatre Guild in New York at the Shubert Theatre and was produced by Jed Harris. Lillian Gish was starred in the part of Helens and Eugene Powers in the role of Alexander Serebrakoff...