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...year the opera house was built for the fun of pretentious gold miners, Norwegian Dramatist Henrik Ibsen sat down to write a play about Nora Helmer, a pampered, naive little wife who commits forgery to get money when her husband is sick, gets such a taste of the world that she leaves home to find out what life is really like. This play, A Doll's House, was presented in Central City's old theatre last week. Nora Helmer was played by sly, small Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who scored a huge personal success last year in a revival...
When Alia Nazimova revived Ghosts on Broadway last week Reviewer Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times, in line with the current critical tendency to regard the plays of Henrik Ibsen as dated, called the drama "only a temperate statement of an ugly thought with a milk-&-gruel attack upon authority and pious idealism." Nevertheless, nobody but Eugene Brieux has since staged the tragedy of venereal inheritance so terribly as Ibsen. As for timeliness, the final "mercy murder" in Ghosts might have been cribbed from last month's front pages (TIME, Nov. 18 et seq.). At any rate...
...rapidly accelerating movement which aims to breathe the spark of living production into the library-bound theatre of Henrik Ibsen made its first local manifestation last week when Eva Le Gallienne presented "Rosmersholm." Now the eminent Alla Nazimova has added the bright flame of her talent to this Ibsen revivification by offering "Ghosts" for a two weeks run at the Colonial Theatre. The fame of the work renders superfluous any detailed analysis of its individual characteristics. A more interesting question is that of Ibsen's place in the modern theatre as revealed in this excellent production...
Last week's jury of award, with the exception of Carnegie Director Homer Saint Gaudens, consisted entirely of painters: Alexander Brook. John Steuart Curry and Jonas Lie of the U. S.; Colin Gill of London; Henrik Lund of Norway; and Belgium's Isadore Opsomer. Pressed for reasons for choosing the Caviedes picture out of the 364 others exhibited, most jurymen thought that its shrewd color scheme was the deciding factor...
...Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss of Nebraska, and a fine delegation from Congress, including Col. Edward Halsey, pompous but popular secretary of the Senate, and Senators Tydings, Dieterich, Walsh, Barkley, Radcliffe, Copeland, Duffy, Gerry. The only political outsider present was Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead who, though a Farmer-Laborite, is a crack duck hunter...