Word: guild
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger members. Herbert J. Biberman, onetime Guild stage manager and product of Professor George Pierce Baker's Yale School of Drama, directed the play and appears to great advantage as the sardonic, vicious Terekhine...
...hesitates to describe the new Guild offering at the Hollis. "Wings Over Europe" as an intellectual drama with an all male cast, for there is no surer way of doing one's two cents worth toward keeping the mobs from the box office. It is best to add that intellectual describes only its lasting appeal, though as it reaches you over the footlights the appeal is primarily emotional, and that its womanlessness arises simply because the play is concerned with atomic rather than the usual spermatozoic processes...
...Theatre Guild has shined up this unusual play with the rare Guild polish, and makes of it definitely one of the better things in the contemporary theatre. It aims higher than anything that has been done recently, and even in falling short of its aim, it still reaches an exhilarating and breath-taking altitude...
Most heartbreaking it is to find at the Hollis, where the Theatre Guild is opening its Boston season, that Lynn Fontanne has nothing to do. The play is "Meteor", by S. N. Behrman, who wrote "The Second Man" and "Serena Blandish". And though Miss Fontanne is in it, on the stage, in fact, for a good part of it, she is a distinct second fiddle. This is all the more remarkable, because there are few enough actresses of her attainments who would take such a part, and none that would do it with such a fine sense of the artistic...
...Game of Love and Death. Alice Brady chooses to meet the guillotine with her husband rather than accept his noble gift of passports which would have enabled her lover and herself to escape. With this verbose French revolution episode by Remain Rolland, the Theatre Guild's season continues to be disappointing...