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...bright, playful people of the Theatre Guild have long gambled luckily on the golden Shaw, and they never succeed better than when they exhibit his sly profundities to their legion of supporters. Winifred Lenihan is Major Barbara, Helen Westley is her sharp-tongued mother. Elliot Cabot is the Greek professor who at one point addresses Millionaire Dudley Digges as Mephistopheles, which Dudley Digges has been in Faust, until quite recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

STRANGE INTERLUDE-Nine acts of intellectual thunder by Eugene O'Neill and a Theatre Guild cast (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Qualities of Moissi | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

WHERE do we go from here?" is asked not only by the would-be Bohemian in a material way, but by all civilization in a much more searching fashion. The Guild proved a medium for expressing among others one answer several years ago, "R. U. R."--that while science and the machine could not totally obliterate humanity, yet only on the barest thread of some intangible essence hung the existence of civilization, a thread totally outside of the scope of science. Others have given vent to the fantastic and emotional cry "Back to Nature"--and schools of education have...

Author: By C. M. U., | Title: BOOKENDS | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Reelected. George Middleton, Manhattan playwright (The House of a Thousand Candles, Polly With a Past); to the presidency of The Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Pooles' Manhattan home. One day, out of a steel-beamed sky, the riveter crashes through the Pooles' conservatory roof. Stunned by the fall, his astonishment is increased by the proximity of Consuelo. His way of expressing his daze is to say "Geez" many times (in throaty Theatre Guild English). There is, of course, an affair and there is a little accident. When Consuelo tells her twice-divorced mother and once-divorced father of her interesting condition, Father cries "Harlot!", Mother cries "Why didn't you tell me?" Only the dowager Mrs. Poole will accept erring granddaughter, riveting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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