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...Muny" opera, this summer, has $77 citizen-guarantors, a backing of $103,000 and a roster of well-paid performers which includes Evelyn Herbert, Odette Myrtil, Katherine Carrington, Gladys Baxter, Marguerita Sylva, Leslie Adams, Robert Halliday, Alexander Gray. The "Muny" way is to have local choristers and dancers who work very hard for very little and get their pictures in the papers. For "Muny" opera some 1,700 seats are free to first-comers who arrive hours before curtain time, munch their suppers while they wait. In the $2 seats early-dining socialites sit comfortably on cushions hawked at every...
...Named by Ben Halliday of Pony Express fame, after his Ophir gold mine, which he had named for the legendary Biblical land of Ophir whence King Solomon got some of his gold...
Joan, Hobart's daughter Hancey Castle Mrs. Dingle, Lady Wyngate's housekeeper Alice Belmore-Cliffe Rand Eldridge, Hobart's younger brother Ben Smith Hobart Eldridge Thurston Hall Lady Violet Wyngate Jane Cowl Hugo Willens John Halliday Sascha Barashaev, pianist and John's flance Marshall Grant Phoebe Eldridge, Hobart's wife Lily Cahill Clendon Wyatt, young American Rhodes scholar Robert Woods Nikolai Jurin, Russian emigre Jose Ruben...
...Theatre Guild has brought Jane Cowl and John Halliday to the Plymouth this week in "Rain From Heaven," as the second play of its Boston Subscription Season. The play was written by S. N. Behrman, from whose pen came last season's success, "Biography." Those who expected a similar play, however, would have been disappointed, for this new work is something of a comedy at times and at others is poignant drama. But it is highly entertaining and it is good drama...
...John Halliday, as Rugo Willens, turns in the best performance and plays his role convincingly. Jane Cowl muddled her lines at times, but is quite successful as the philanthropic lady of leisure. Thurston Hall, who bears a close resemblance to Herbert Heover is excellent at all times, and particularly in the scene in which he drinks to forget that seen his wealth will be confiscated by the damn Communists Ben Smith, as Rand Fliridge, is awkard as a lever, and seems ill at case in the role Jose Ruben is splendid...