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...write it, but you can't speak it-at least according to the censor. Another well-known novel will appear in a stage version when Margaret Anglin opens in San Francisco this June with The Great Lady Dedlock (adapted from Dickens' Bleak House) by Paul Kester. Mr. Kester is said to have worked four years on the play. With the decline of the New York theatrical season has come an increase in the use of the "twofer" system by managers who are not yet quite ready to send their attractions to the storehouse and would rather have them...
...their native land to the chariot-wheels of Convention. Indeed, most of the contemporary French work which filters through to this country shows that lack of spontaneity which results from adapting life to the stage and not the stage to life. Nor are Kistmaecker and the adaptor--Paul Kester--any exceptions to the rule: for while the dialogue is occasionally interesting, the plot is hopelessly stereotyped. Thus such lines as, "Pan--that gay little goatlegged god with so much pep"; "The poet who sent me a song written on asbestos", and "This is not dancing--it's osteopathy", received...