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...system of presenting a repertory of plays, not unified in being of one type or by one author, which both these companies employ, has grown immensely in favor during recent years. Perhaps its most conspicuous devotee is the Theatre Guild of New York, with a long record of successful revivals, and presentations of important new plays. But while New York lias sat at a feast of dramatic good things, Boston has had lean fare. The Repertory Theater here is but a shade of what it might have been. Henry Jewett's company struggled valiantly but some spark of public interest...
...Guilds, popular in the Middle Ages among artisans and such, are now once more a favorite form of organization. Last fortnight the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra (Georges Zaslawskey, Conductor), which has just completed its first active season, became the Beethoven Symphony Guild, and incorporated in Manhattan as a non-profit-sharing membership corporation. The aims of the Beethoven Symphony Guild are: to maintain a high-calibre 100-piece symphony orchestra, to give low price concerts in obscure communities as well as metropolitan centres, to raise $200,000, to be selfsupporting...
STRANGE INTERLUDE-The Theatre Guild unfolding the long and astonishing scroll upon which Eugene O'Neill has traced the bitterness of a disappointed woman (TIME...
Volpone. When the Theatre Guild wanted to play Ben Jonson's sardonic comedy, they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...
...those who like their drama more or less straight, who go to the theatre with a serious purpose, Sidney Howard has written, and the Theatre Guild has produced, "The Silver Cord", now on the board of the Wilbur Theatre, with Laura Hope Crews, as in New York, heading a capable cast...