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...Doctor's Dilemma. The commendable industry of retrieving Bernard Shaw's plays proceeds pungently at the Theatre Guild. Not for a dozen years has Manhattan heard Shavian firecrackers go off around the ankles of the medical profession. The sputter of novelty has been muted by time and by an increasing propensity on the part of the profession itself to admit how many, many things it cannot cure. But for those who still regard medicine as magic, it will be a painless purge. For those who still more reasonably revere as magic an agile comedy immaculately acted, it will...
Last July, editors were in a quandary over a book called The President's Daughter, published and issued for review by an "Elizabeth Ann Guild, Inc." of Manhattan. The author, one Nan Britton, purported to have been infatuated since girlhood with her fellow townsman, the late President Harding. He was represented as having returned her devotion after she had grown up and he had become a U. S. Senator. He was said to have placed her in Manhattan with the U. S. Steel Corp. as a secretary, through his friend, the late Elbert H. Gary. The most intimate scenes, complete...
...Miss Britton bore a daughter whom she named Elizabeth Ann and for whom, together with all illegitimates, she now sought legal recognition and a patrimony, sale of The President's Daughter at $5 per copy was said to be for the benefit of the Elizabeth Ann Guild Inc an organization to better the lot "of illegitimates. The latter part of the book related Miss Britton's futile efforts to obtain a settlement from the Harding estate or relatives. She had been touring in Europe she said on money he had given her after his election to the Presidency. She hurried...
...selection of the "Tristram" of Edwin Arlington Robinson to make him the "one" of the Literary Guild has had a curious effect. From being a poet more dabbled in at the poetry shelf of the library than read, he has suddenly seen America make a beaten path to his door, with the Literary Guild as forest guide. He can never hope to equal the Poet of the People, but "Isolt of the white hands" fifty thousand times iterated is a respectable showing. The pleasantest part of it is that he has lost no part of his poetic dignity...
...over and stage shows for them. He is 30, an Armenian-Russian; forsook law studies in Moscow to learn his trade in the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. He was directing for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester when he sought and found a small niche at the Guild. When the directors were exhausted trying to select a suitable director for the treacherously difficult Porgy they asked him if he thought he could do it. He said yes. They, fortunately, believed him. Just how an Armenian-Russian caught the spirit of the U. S. Negro with such astounding skill...