Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-four-year-old Producer Crawford and 36-year-old Director Strasberg have long worked together. In 1929 they, with Harold Clurman, founded an experimental studio under the auspices of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, three years later struck out for themselves as the Group Theatre. In the next five years the Group produced such unhackneyed plays as Paul Green's Johnny Johnson, Sidney Kingsley's Men in White, Clifford Odets' Awake & Sing!, Waiting for Lefty, Paradise Lost. Several of these plays were directed by Strasberg...
Early last fall came a parting of the ways. Amicably clashing over policy, Crawford and Strasberg withdrew from the Group, Clurman remained. Cheryl Crawford set up as her own producer, last week made her bow with All the Living. Strasberg became a free lance. Both Crawford and Strasberg represent the vanguard of the U. S. theatre; both have a background of foreign experimentalism. Strasberg, originally influenced by Actor-Director Constantine Stanislavsky of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, favors a naturalistic technique, insists that actors should "do all the small things, not worry about the big things...
...occupant of Room No. 215. A small brick building with heavy-paneled doors and antique lamps glowing dimly in the linoleum-floored corridors, Fine Hall-houses the mathematical contingent of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. The Institute, which soon will have buildings of its own, is a group of distinguished scholars who are subsidized so that they may pursue their own researches without the distraction of giving courses, preparing examinations, grading papers. Many of the Institute's members are Jewish exiles from Germany. Directed by Dr. Abraham Flexner, the Institute was started in 1933 with...
...Nathaniel Spear Jr. is a short, dark, slick-haired Yaleman of 41, a connoisseur of tapestries and an executive head of a group of furniture stores in New York and Pittsburgh. If Mr. Spear wanted to, he could produce one of the most remarkable jingle-jangles of sound ever heard: he could set all his 885 bells to ringing simultaneously. During years of travel Mr. Spear has collected bells from big to tiny, many of them old and odd, most of them ringable-the largest collection in the world. Last week proud Mr. Spear moved them all into his 34th...
Meanwhile, Soviet musical authorities, who had suddenly developed a tremendous respect for such romantic 19th-Century composers as Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov (both previously considered horrible examples of bourgeois sentimentality), got themselves a new approved list of less modernistic composers. First to shine among the new group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed...