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...reported to have exceeded that of any year since 1913. Approxmately one-third of the $250,000,000 was spent on old masters. Chief buyers: Collector Thomas Benedict Clarke, Banker Jules Semon Bache, Motorman Lawrence P. Fisher, Financier-Socialite Joseph E. Widener, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn, many a museum. Chief buy: Delia Francesco's The Crucifixion bought from Anderson Galleries by Sir Joseph Duveen...
...cast and the production committee for the Harvard Menorah Society's presentation of Ludwig Lewisohn's "Adam" have just been announced. The play, which is a dramatization of "The Island Within" by the same author, will be shown at Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe April...
...Neighborhood Playhouse, best known to Manhattanites as the tiny Grand Street Theatre near the Bowery where three and more years ago unusual plays and an annually clever revue (Grand Street Follies) attracted large uptown audiences. The Neighborhood Playhouse in a broader sense represents an idea of Alice and Irene Lewisohn (scionesses of a famed Jewish family), who used to put on plays for children at the Henry Street Settlement. Plays for children grew into plays for grown-ups and in 1915 the Lewisohns built the Grand Street Theatre, opened it with Jephtha's Daughter for which special music...
...first the Lewisohn Sisters presented plays only on weekends. During the week cinemas were given for five cents' admission. Short dramatic interludes were introduced in which actors like Albert Carroll and Blanche Talmud, who have since made names for themselves, appeared. Then the Playhouse adopted a regular schedule, won increasing notice with such plays as Granville-Barker's The Madras House, Gibour with Yvette Guilbert, The Little Clay Cart and The Dybbuk...
...characteristic of the Lewisohn sisters that in 1927, after the success of The Dybbuk, they closed their theatre, announced that they "must pause and consider further developments." They told some that the institutional notion of a theatre (workshops for scenery and costumes had been organized, also a training school for young players) was intruding upon the bigger, finer ideas with which they had begun. Thus vaguely, with idealistic intonation, the sisters have always revealed themselves. Alice, now married to British Artist Herbert Crowley, lives, in Paris. But Irene has carried on in the same lofty spirit. As "the Lewisohn Sisters...