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Lcud Speaker. The New Play-wrights-John Dos Passos, John Howard Lawson, Francis Faragoh., Michael Gold, Em Jo Basshe-impatient with the restraint of conventional theatre, have set up one of their own, bolstered up by the generous purse of Otto Hermann Kahn. Here, at old Bim's, now the 52nd Street Theatre, they propose to experiment with those radical dramatic forms of whose marketability the commercial producers are suspicious...
Their first production, Loud Speaker, was written by John Howard Lawson, author of Processional (TIME, Jan. 26, 1925). As expected, it is staged against a "constructivist" background and presents the subjective state of the principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by affording the playwright several planes of action on one stage, it allows greater flexibility than is permitted by the rigid three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner...
Died. Col. William Lawson Peel. 77, banker, music lover; of heart failure; in Atlanta. What Otto H, Kahn is to New York, what Samue1 Insull is to Chicago, Colonel Peel has been to Atlanta...
...Heard Laborite Leader Ram say Macdonald rebuke Laborite Backbencher Lawson when he attempted to heckle the Speaker. Craning his neck like an angry bull turtle, former Premier Macdonald snapped: "Stop it, Lawson! Say you're sorry. Apologize to the Speaker." Mr. Lawson reddened, purpled, offered the (for him) supreme apology of remaining silent for some hours...
...Many congratulations to the Star. With sympathetic understanding of your feelings." It came from Walter A. Strong, general manager of the Chicago Daily News whose late owner, Victor F. Lawson, left the paper to be sold that the proceeds might be given to Congregational Church works (TIME, Jan. 4). Mr. Strong and his associates have good reason to sustain sympathetic understanding of the feelings of men who stood recently in danger of being deprived of all interest in an enterprise to which they had given the best energies of their lives, or else of being, in Arthur Brisbane...