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...influence of Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun, had finished The Green Pastures, he took it to Producer Jed Harris. Producer Harris was busy with Uncle Vanya (TIME, April 21, 1930). Producer Crosby Gaige also turned down the Connelly piece and the Theatre Guild would have none of it. But the play interested Rowland Stebbins, an inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving Mr. Stebbins of Wagner...
...Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles (by George Bernard Shaw; Theatre Guild, producers). Fifty years ago last week a young man with lots of self-confidence sat down in the reading room of the British Museum to write his first play. He called it Widowers' Houses. George Bernard Shaw had already met with indifferent success as an orator, fictionist and Fabian Society member when Dramacritic William Archer presented him with a skeleton plot and persuaded him to turn his talents toward the theatre. It was not long before Shaw was back with the news that he needed more plot, having...
...Provencal dialect of southern France. The story takes place in the semi-rural part of this district. The play of the same name ran with great success for over a year in Paris and furnished the inspiration for "The Late Christopher Bean," which was played by the Theater Guild...
...accordance with the club's tradition this will be the first production of the play in this country. Earlier in the year it was considered by the Theater Guild with either Ina Claire or Tallulah Bankhead in the title-role...
Monologist Howe, who writes her own skits, comes by her penetrating literary manner legitimately. Daughter of a Harvard Overseer, sister of Editor Quincy Howe of The Living Age, she tried one year at Radcliffe, then studied with Georges Vitray in Paris, later at the Theatre Guild's defunct school under Winifred Lenihan. Critics, who had not seen her in Manhattan since 1932, applauded her sly caricatures of the U. S. scene, rated her less profound than Draper & Skinner, wittier than either. Some of the Howe Characters & Caricatures...