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Editors and owners of the Nutmeg are ten: American Newspaper Guild President Heywood Broun, music critic and composer Deems Taylor, publicist Stanley Hoflund High, cinema editor Colvin Brown, distiller James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, novelists John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy) and Ursula Parrott (Ex-Wife), journalist Quentin Reynolds, advertising executive Jack Pegler (brother of Westbrook), literary agent George T. Bye. Saluting its neighbors, the Nutmeg announced: "We have no policy. . . . The Nutmeg is our cracker barrel. There will always be a seat for you on a nail keg. We promise to supply at least two problems where...
...editors expect they will soon need a reporter. The appearance of a paid editorial employe will provide Nutmegman Broun with a delicate problem. As Guild President, he might logically be expected to urge the reporter to join the C. I. O. But Labor Leader Broun would also be the reporter's employer and if he did so he would violate the National Labor Relations Act. In the New York World-Telegram recently Cartoonist Will B. Johnstone limned this dilemma...
...theatres, experimental theatres, repertory theatres are like frail children. They get the most devoted care, but seldom get any exercise, grow any muscle, gain any weight. In the quarter-century before 1937, Manhattan saw only four such theatres survive adolescence: the Theatre Guild, the Provincetown Hay-house, the Civic Repertory Theatre (thanks to Director Eva Le Gallienne), the Group Theatre (thanks chiefly to Playwright Clifford Odets...
Next? Welles is full of ideas for next season's Mercury, though there are no announced plans beyond Five Kings, which will be tried out this summer and produced for the Mercury by the Theatre Guild in the fall. Five Kings will be a double-header performance telescoping Shakespeare's chronicle plays: the end of Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II, Henry V, Henry VI, Parts I, II, III, and Richard III. Welles will direct the whole enterprise, and play Falstaff. The Theatre Guild will supply part of the backing and the fat pickings...
...When the Theatre Guild produced Heartbreak House in 1920, a violent crisis arose with Shaw when the Guild suggested cutting it. The Mercury made no such suggestion. Said Welles: "The play's not good enough to cut." In the next breath: "It's the greatest play of the last hundred years...