Word: ibsenism
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...having progressed to Ibsen, NBC formed a Radio Guild, boldly undertook to produce one play a week, 52 weeks in the year. For several years one man, Vernon Radcliff, adapted every play, directed every performance. NBC, prospering in the great Depression, gave him enough money to allow productions of Galsworthy, Barrie, George S. Kaufman...
...eyes. Since Christmas night, not a new show-and only one revival, Porgy and Bess-had really managed to click on Broadway. There had been 16 shows in all, half of them by well-known playwrights-Clifford Odets, Charles MacArthur, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John van Druten, Samson Raphaelson, Henrik Ibsen, Ben Hecht; and last week there was Marc Connelly. But this week Connelly had joined the rest: his Flowers of Virtue withered after four performances...
...Norwegian play acted in English on an American stage by a Greek actress is a combination to raise even the most imperturbable eyebrow. When the play is Ibsen's, the actress is Katina Paxinou, and the lines are streamlined in a modernized translation, the result is enough to raise the other eyebrow and a good round of applause to boot. Though in any production of "Hedda Gabler" Henrik Ibsen must remain the outstanding attraction, Mrs. Paxinou interprets the role with challenging individuality. Her sensitivity and restraint as the neurotic and theatrical Hedda prevent her overdoing a part that...
...part he plays, though the acting of Cecil Humphreys and Henry Daniell is equally good. The only question mark in Luther Greene's set-up is Karen Morley, who lacks the assurance and stage sense of the other members of the cast. The total effect is entertaining, and does Ibsen full justice...
...Dedalean Labyrinth). Levin quotes St. John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden of the manifold texts of Finnegans Wake," and of Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Zola, Gide, Eliot, Mann...