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...theatre, which a Broadway wisecracker once termed "the flophouse of the drama," came billowing out of the imagination of a frankly stage-struck playwright named Butler Davenport, who looks like Edwin Booth (see cut). Taking over the building in 1915 left Davenport $3.17. But $3.17 floated plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Molière and Butler Davenport, with unpaid casts made up of starry-eyed young amateurs, sad-faced old professionals, milliners' assistants, postmen, stenographers, clerks. Now & then there might be a familiar Broadway name like Mary Shaw in the cast, or future Broadway names like Rose McClendon and Frank...
...Darling Daughter, scheduled for at least 100 performances at 25 theatres from Denver, Colo, to Whitefield, N. H. Next are Tovarich, Night Must Fall, Tonight at Eight-Thirty, Let Us Be Gay, Night of January 16 and French Without Tears, all Broadway successes. Other noteworthy plans include Ibsen's Brand, never before professionally performed in the U. S., at Litchneld, Conn.; a Booth Tarkington festival, supervised by Booth Tarkington and including Seventeen, Aromatic Aaron Burr, at Kennebunkport, Me.; Gallo-Shubert revivals at Jones Beach and Randall's Island, N. Y., Cleveland, Louisville; Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias...
...Doll's House (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Lux Radio Theatre does Ibsen for its first excursion into the classic drama with Joan Crawford. Basil Rathbone and Sam Jaffe...
...Planets (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC-Red). Alfred Kreymborg's first full-hour poetic radio drama, a peace allegory, entered against Ibsen in an internetwork culture competition...
...Wild Duck, coming after the season's brilliant revival of Ibsen's A Doll's House (TIME, Jan. 10), was just as disastrous as The Merry Wives in exactly the opposite way. Underplayed to the vanishing point, it left the audience wondering whether they had lost their hearing or the actors had lost their voices. With the pace a solemn largo, The Wild Duck, possibly the greatest play in the modern theatre, might have got by as a genteel pantomime had there been any gestures...