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Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect...
GREEN GROW THE LILACS?The Theater Guild goes way out West...
...mouths for the world to feed, 13,000,000 extra jobs to be found, 13,000,000 social readjust- ments to be made. Would the world which now mourns them welcome back the brave from their sleep? With such portentous questions as these is Miracle at Verdun, the Theatre Guild's latest opus, concerned. To produce its ambitious piece, the Guild has employed a triple cinema screen, three sound-film projectors, seven scenes, 17 loudspeakers, a company of 50 actors...
...night that Miracle at Verdun opened in Leipzig last October, he sank into unconsciousness, died without knowing of the show's success. The son of a military man, a one-time military student himself, he loathed war, wrote his play in protest against it. The Guild, under Director Herbert J. Biberman, has given Miracle at Verdun a skillful presentation. It is overlong (three hours), lets one down a little at the end. but is a tremendously interesting and audacious piece of modern theatrical technique...
...Literary Guild celebrates its fifth anniversary this month by publishing "Savage Messiah" by H. S. Ede, a biography of the young French sculptor, Henri Gaudier. The biography is one of the finest yet selected by the Guild and was an appropriate choice to round out their fifth year of existence...