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...cast new light on the art of past ages, and fail to recognize and foster the growth of contemporary art forms within their own walls. It is encouraging, therefore, to watch the growth within the University of two such groups as the Harvard Film Society and the Cinema Guild, concerned with the advancement of one of these forms...
...motion picture industry has the materials to reach high artistic levels. The best of the foreign films show its potentialities in this direction. The quality of films in this country is lowered by the critical indifference of an unexacting and habitual audience. It is significant that the Cinema Guild, recognizing the need for thoughtful criticism of motion pictures, is planning a magazine towards that end. Unbiased and intelligent criticism of past and contemporary films is the best method for developing the critical faculties of the public. It is also their belief that a knowledge of what goes into the making...
...Gull (by Anton Chekhov; produced by The Theatre Guild Inc.). One of the things important actors can do is to get a hearing for important plays. When Chekhov's Sea Gull was revived last week with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the cast, it instantly became news as well...
...JOHN GUILD NESBITT...
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...