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...opening performance of "Mr. Paraclete" last fall, Theresa Helburn, director of the Theatre Guild in New York, attended with a view to weighing its possibilities as a Theatre Guild production. Word has recently been received that the Evreinos play, which has been presented under various titles will open in tour weeks as a Theatre Guild production under the name of "The Chief Thing." A different translation from that of W. L. Laurence '11, which was used by the Dramatic Club, will be followed, however...
Goat Song. The Theatre Guild has also snapped its fingers. In the face of the most unsuccessful season the Guild has had since it became established, a play has been produced which must unquestionably fail. Goat Song is a German importation, its symbolism of the severest sort, abstract and corrosive and yet strangely fascinating...
...Theatre Guild has staged this weird adventure with all the cunning resources at its command. Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Blanche Yurka, George Gaul, Helen Westley, Dwight Frye, Albert Bruning and other notables head an apparently endless cast. Acting, setting and direction are superb. Goat Song can be set down as an inspired attempt to cage within the worldly walls of the theatre an intangible and hopelessly unanswerable abstraction...
ARMS AND THE MAN-The Theatre Guild's revival of Bernard Shaw's early and stimulating war satire...
Florence Mills, pastel darktown strutter, made a very serious concert bow last week before the International Composers' Guild, Manhattan, Eugene Goossens and Ottorino Respighi conducting; Mme. Respighi, soloist, and Alfredo Casella, pianist. Thin, glittering, syncopation in her eye, she sang four songs with a small jazz orchestra-"Levee Land" it was called, by William Still...