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...bamboo poles have wondered at the persistency of a man who would sit all day upon a wet rock with a "rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance," whatever that might be. Our fathers step out into the bright lights of Broadway from a Theatre Guild production, with a soft sigh for days when Thomas Jefferson made Rip Van Winkle stretch his cramped legs upon a New York stage. And Ichabod Crane has become a fixture in America, one might even say a plumbing fixture...
First the Theatre Guild got the script of Brief Moment, asked Mr. Woollcott to play the easygoing, quipful part of the helpful intermediary. He refused. Then Katharine Cornell bought it, made the same request. Somewhat puzzled, Mr. Woollcott read the play, soon discovered why his services were in such demand. Playwright Behrman's stage direction for the part was: "He should look like Alex ander Woollcott as much as is physically possible." Showered with congratulatory telegrams and flowers, attired in green silk dressing gown and blue silk pajamas, Actor Woollcott found himself an instantaneous success the morning after...
...Independent, self-contained, her speech and writing alike are full of a mannered dignity, a compound of books and Kentucky dialect. Before she settled down to be an important U. S. novelist she wrote a book of poems, Under the Tree, which won the Fiske Prize. When the Literary Guild chose A Buried Treasure for its November book Authoress Roberts hung up a figurative trophy: she was the first authoress (or author) to have three novels chosen by a book club. The others: The Time of Man (Book of the Month, October 1926); The Great Meadow (Literary Guild, March...
...cast alone that make the Theater Guild performances so pleasant for their audiences usually create an agreeable atmosphere. Boston audiences are not usually recipients of compliments, but through the agency of the subscription seats the Theatre Guild has succeed in making itself an exception. Almost any halfway decent play presented by them would be an enjoyable evening's entertainment if seen on one of the first nights. Perhaps this is why Philip Barry's present play seems so very good without having any one very outstanding quality which a reviewer could discuss with superlatives...
...leaves the performances with a pleasant impression of University fine acting, enhanced by a general atmosphere of congeniality. The more technical work of casting and directing is in keeping with the dramatic standards of then Theatre Guild...