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...Majesty the Queen officially opened the annual exhibition of Queen Mary's London Needlework Guild last week. She beamed with pride at the principal exhibit: three soft woolen scarves knit by the busy fingers of Edward of Wales, her eldest, and three other scarves knit by her youngest son Prince George...
...audience always contains many sheerly personal admirers of Directrix Le Gallienne, including mannish-looking women in suits tailored like hers and carrying canes. But these are minor causes for the Repertory's success. The major significance of the theatre is that it proves, like a corollary to the Theatre Guild, that fine dramatic art treated studiously, "artistically," is appreciated in Manhattan.? And though Miss Le Gallienne's chief associates?Jacob Ben-Ami, Josephine Hutchinson, Leona Roberts, Egon Brecher and Paul Leyssac?would merit headlines anywhere, major credit for a serious venture which is one of Manhattan's greatest civic...
Punctilious, sensitive Leslie Howard strikes a proper balance between the comic and serious aspects of Peter's career. Margalo Gillmore, late of the Theatre Guild, is his wide-eyed partner in supertemporal romance. These two extract fine philosophical nuance as well as fantasy from their curious roles. All three acts are laid in a Queen Anne drawing room, magnificently rendered by Sir Edwin Lutyens, famed British architect (TIME, Aug. 12), containing an easel originally owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds...
Joseph Wood Krutch associate editor of "The Nation" and an editor of "The Literary Guild", while in Boston Monday expressed himself as being opposed to censorship in all-forms...
...Theater Guild's production of "Porgy" returns to the Hollis, after a year, with no loss in its striking effectiveness. It is a folk play, but without the easy movement of plot which that expression might imply; local color, to be sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy...