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Edison the Man is a faithful, even reverent attempt to immortalize the Edison story on film. But like most posthumous at tempts to recreate the creative moments of great men - Beethoven scoring the Seventh Symphony while romping through a thunderstorm, Schubert conceiving the Unfinished Symphony because of heartbreak over a Hungarian minx - Edison's fine frenzies remain, with the past, unrecapturable...
During the 1920s, The Theatre Guild was the most important single influence on the U. S. theatre. It may have fallen for artiness, but it also recognized art. An organization which, during its first ten years, produced Heartbreak House, Liliom, Back to Methuselah, R. U. R., The Adding Machine, Saint Joan, Processional, Ned McCobb's Daughter, Right You Are If You Think You Are and Strange Interlude could well be pleased with itself...
Most important act of the Guild's early days was its tie-up with Shaw. Tackling his difficult Heartbreak House when nobody else would touch it, the Guild produced it successfully, next season took on Shaw's triple-decker Back to Methuselah. Of that play, Shaw told the Guild that his name had been worth $10,000 to them-they had figured to lose $30,000, lost only...
...better were its performers less wistful about their homeland. In spite of a girl who wails that she wants Artie Shaw, and not Johann Strauss, the group does quite a bit of gulping for the Wiener Wald. It's understandable; but on stage, as off, a little heartbreak goes a long...
...group of photographs of the actors and scenes from the play are shown with the masks. The production of "The Great God Brown" was the third given by the New England Repertory Theatre under the direction of Edwin Pettet, two of Shaw's "Androcles and The Lion," and "Heartbreak House" having been played in Boston in May and June. The fourth production, "Madchen in Uniform" will be presented for a week at Peabody Playhouse the end of November...