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Four Harvard men will participate in the Wellesley Barnswallows Association's production of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" at Alumnae Hall on Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7 at eight o'clock...
...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...
...should be no surprise to learn that Ibsen is definitely dated. His battles have been fought to a finish on the lines he marked out and if society has not attained the peak of liberal rationality which he desired it is at least clear that the urban theatre goers have arrived at a state of sophistication which prevents them from regarding illicit love as shocking. Ibsen's fight in "Ghosts" was against convention and the rigid moral code of his time which resolved life into "duty and obligation" and left happiness as a sort of rare unearned increment...
Tryouts for the Wellasley College Baruswallows' Fall production. Ibsen's "The Doll House", will get underway tonight and tomorrow under the critical eyes of Whitney Cook 36 President of the HDC. and his afiles. They will choose from the acceptable actors of the University, the male cast for the play which is to take place December 6 and 7. The tryouts, open to all members of the college will take place FUN from 7:30 till 9:00 both evenings...
Most famed contemporary cinema performer of Oriental roles, Warner Oland was born in Umea, Sweden, reared in Boston. He arrived at his current specialty after a long stage career in Ibsen and Shakespearean roles which ended when he made his cinema debut in Jewels of the Madonna, with Theda Bara (1917). Thereafter he played in serials like The Violet Diamond of Daroon. His career as a Chinese started when he played Charlie Yong in East Is West (1922). For his first Chan picture he got $12,500. Now he gets $100,000 for three in a row. In private, although...