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Americana. The success of the concentrated and often semiprofessional revues of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Theatre Guild juniors has inspired a strictly professional show of the same dimensions. J. P. McEvoy, newspaper satirist and author of The Potters, wrote the sketches, and a vast variety of folk, including George Gershwin, Con Conrad, Philip Charig and Henry Souvaine, the music. Roy Atwell and a vaudeville performer named Lew Brice are the leading performers and the show appears at the tiny Belmont Theatre. It is a small but wiry show, often immensely entertaining...
...scene of an extraordinary mock session staged for the benefit of 859 U. S. college preceptors visiting London under the auspices of the Art Trust Guild of Chicago. Sir Samuel Chapman, M. P., and Lady Astor enacted, during a recess of the House, the respective roles of a mock-Speaker and a mock-Clydside Laborite extremist. "Attaboy!" shouted many a U. S. savant as the Right Honorable Lady refused to desist from her ex tempore harangue on War debts when called to order by "Speaker" Chapman. Eventually she subsided as her fellow M. P.'s trooped back into...
LESS SERIOUS AT MRS. BEAM'S-The Theatre Guild's English importation about a man who sliced up his wives with a sword...
Prunella. Students of the Theatre Guild School revived this fantasy by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker for three special matinees. Winthrop Ames officiated as guest director. The story is that of Pierrot and Pierette. One young lady, Sylvia Sidney, gave brilliant promise. The matinees attracted sufficient attention to be extended...
Furthermore the cast has lost two of its most important performers and collected only one notably apt substitute, a girl "named Bobbie Perkins. She is dark and she dances and everybody liked her. The rest, aspiring artists who solve the mob and the servant problems in the various Theatre Guild productions, were confidently capable...