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...Town", presented by Jed Harris, written by Thornton Wilder, and starring Frank Craven, vitalizes the vital statistics of Grovers Corners, a mythical village in New Hampshire. Mr. Craven, called the Stage Manager, saunters about leisurely arranging and rearranging the few odd pieces of furniture serving as scenery, takes two parts in the play, apologizes for the coarseness of the characters' remarks, makes running comments to fill in the gaps in the action while leaning nonchalantly on one side of the portal of the stage and puffing, away at his pipe, thanks the actors for the episodes they have presented...
...Doll's House (by Henrik Ibsen, new acting version by Thornton Wilder; produced by Jed Harris). Of late years Ibsen's famed Doll's House has been gathering dust in the theatre's attic. But shrewd Producer Jed Harris thought that all the old play needed was a thorough dusting. As house cleaner he got Author Thornton Wilder, whose used his broom with a will, beat all the grimy old-fashionedness out of the dialogue, threw 15 unnecessary minutes right out the window. Producer Harris opened his refurbished Doll's House at last summer...
...outlaws, sheriff, the hero with the silver-plated stock saddle-is a gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer who learned his art from Mack Sennett...
Associated Features. Inc., the company that made Harlem on the Prairie, is an all-white organization. President and chief producer is Jed Buell, who has made a specialty of shoe-string productions, spent considerably less than $50,000 on this picture. If Harlem on the Prairie clicks, he plans to turn out four such Westerns a year. Secretary-treasurer of the com-pany is famed, rich Yale Pole-Vaulter Sabin W. Carr...
...bawdy classic, The Country Wife. Sam Jaffe played the blackmailer, Nils Krogstad; Walter Slezak was the husband and Dennis King took the part of Dr. Rank. Instead of the stilted, outmoded language which mars most Ibsen translations, the play was given in modern idiom supplied by Thornton Wilder. Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, The Front Page, The Green Bay Tree) worked in collaboration with Producer Richard Aldrich, who is this year's festival manager...