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While touring the provinces with her own group of Ibsen players, Miss Le Gallienne conceived the idea of the Civic Repertory Theatre. It was in Cincinnati that she put the proposition to her company. Many of them are still with her. Her backers included Otto Herman Kahn, Adolph Lewisohn, Ralph Pulitzer, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. She opened on a Monday night in 1926 with Jacinto Benavente's Saturday Night, gave Tchekov's The Three Sisters on Tuesday and, scorning to start gradually, added some Ibsen later in the week. The Pictorial Review Achievement Award for that year ($5,000) helped...
...Besides the list above, Civic Repertory bills have included: La Locandiera (Goldoni); The Master Builder, Hedda Gabler, John Gabriel Borkman (Ibsen); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare); The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard (Tchekov); L'Invitation au Voyage (Bernard); A Sunny Morning, The Lady from Alfaqueque (the Quinteros...
...Author of The Green Goddess, translator and editor of many Ibsen plays...
...Krutch, the author of "Edgar Allan Poe" and "The Modern Temper", spoke Sunday night at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, where his subject was "The Drama from Ibsen to O'Neill...
Minnie Maddern Fiske, 64, was bora in New Orleans, daughter of Thomas W. Davey, theatrical manager. Aged 3, she appeared in Richard III; aged 15, she was starred with her own company. She has played Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Becky Sharp, Salvation Nell, many an Ibsen heroine. In 1890 she married theatrical director Harrison Grey Fiske who still stages her productions. Eight years ago she gave up tragic, wearing parts, but later rallied to play Ibsen's Ghosts. She wears no real furs or feathers, eats no flesh. In 1925 she said: "Society is so organized...