Word: jed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green Bay Tree* (by Mordaunt Shairp; Jed Harris, producer) is an appallingly sharp study of a middle-aged Briton who does not like girls at all and his adopted son who does not like girls much. Ballyhooed as a daring exploration of male homosexuality, done boldly in London last January, it has been purged by Producer-Director Harris of its sexual psychopathy. Now it ostensibly embroiders only the spiritual dependence of an older man on a young man in his own sybaritic image, the boy's sensual dependence on the luxuries the older man supplies. James Dale plays...
...Walter Hampden is rehearsing Ruy Bias. Max Gordon is making ready Gowns by Roberta, with music & libretto by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The Brothers Shubert, scrambling out of bankruptcy, have already presented Joe Cook to gasping audiences, will put on a Follies with Fanny Brice. In collaboration with Jed Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock as thoroughly as did The Captive. A sequel to Of Thee I Sing, by the same authors and with the same cast, will appear soon, to be called Let 'Em Eat Cake...
...going to be a big day for both Ethel and Joe. Ethel's brother Jed is bringing his fiancée Babby for family inspection. Joe's sister Cornelia is coming down from Hollywood to spend the weekend. Most important for Joe is a call from Monica, his secretary and truelove, that she is bringing out the McKelveys that afternoon. Maybe Joe will be able to sell McKelvey that plot of land on the canyon's top. If he cannot, he is bankrupt, ruined...
...hoping to find some solace in her brother's family. But Ethel and her children are worse than she had dreamed. Monica comes with the McKelveys who are just about to climb the canyon and look at the land, when solicitous Ethel insists on their having tea instead. Jed and Babby come late. Jed learns from Hertha, to his horror, that she is pregnant with a child of his. Dinner is served, and a long time...
...Uncle Vanya" was presented last year in New York by the Theatre Guild, when it was produced by Jed Harris, with title roles being played by Lillian Gish and Eugene Powers. The closed performance given last evening in the Rogers Building for the Dramatic Club constituted an experiment for the Studio Players, who until the building was taken over by the Dramatic Club had not had an opportunity in play there. This evening's performance will find the New York company back on the stage in Brattle Hall...