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Civic Repertory Theatre, cor. 6th Ave. and 14th St., Eva le Galliene, a good actress but a fine director, sees to it that her repertory, which runs the gaunt of the drama, including farce and tragedy, Ibsen, Shakespeare, and moderns, is given a well rounded performance on an adequately set stage...
...Ghosts. Ibsen's tragedy employing a pathological mishap as symbol of the hideous immorality that easily hides beneath "respectability," is familiar to Broadway. Last year it was done, and the year before and. . . . The plot is taken up with the attempt to build an orphan asylum in honor of Chamberlain Alving, deceased, the while his son's brain softens from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role...
...Civic Repertory. Theatre, 6th Avenue and 14th--Eva Le Galliene has gathered around her an excellent company, and if she is not a great actress one is a great director. Her repertoire runs from comedy to tragedy, from Shakespeare to Ibsen. The prices, moreover, are accessible even to the man who carrles his fortune in his vest pocket...
...Other plays produced this season by this organization: Chekhov's The Three Sisters (TIME, Nov. 8), Benavente's Saturday Night (TIME, Nov. 15), Ibsen's The Master Builder (TIME, Nov. 15), Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (TIME, Nov. 29). Prices range from 50 cents...
...garret, who finally stamped forth rashly to regain love and the world when it was too late. The little pauses between lines, the way an actor paces the room, the tempo of dialogue and movement, make all the difference in play production. To this work of Playwright Ibsen's old age, Miss Le Gallienne has given more careful direction than she has to previous offerings of her Civic Repertory Theatre. Egon Brecher, in the title role, is a picturesque figure, a capable actor. The New York Evening Post: "... at popular-most popular- prices...