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...Glencairn. The Provincetown Players started their season with a foggy fantasm called The Crime in the Whistler Room and critics sighed. Were the promising group (headed by Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Stark Young, and Eugene O'Neill) going to break promises? S.S. Glencairn stifles sighs. Promises of provocative and capably significant drama are being kept. These four one-act plays are among the very few evening's worth of money and mind on the present playbill...
...Crime in the Whistler Room gallantly attempted to be introspective and exceedingly modern and succeeded in being dull. It is the opening production of the season by the group of young and thoroughly intelligent persos of whom Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmund Jones and Eugene O'Neill are the leaders. Unhappily, they selected as a starter a complex and over-worded play...
Provincetown Theatre. Messrs. Eugene O'Neill (dramatist), Robert Edmond Jones (artist) and Kenneth Macgowan (author) have rounded out their best experimental bill to date and have established the place of their little theatre-doing things well that would not be done at all-anywhere else...
...dramatic miscegenation will shortly be enacted in the Provincetown Playhouse, Manhattan, by a brilliant Negro named Paul Robeson and a brilliant white named Mary Blair. The producers are the Provincetown Players, headed by Eugene O'Neill, dramatist; Robert Edmund Jones, artist, and Kenneth Macgowan, author. Many white people do not like the idea. Neither do many black...
...Spook Sonata. August Strindberg, Eugene O'Neil, Robert Edmond Jones, Kenneth MacGowan and Clare Eames contributed their considerable capabilities toward the production of this play. When it was all over and the curtain down, the rest of the group might well have turned and leveled accusing fingers at Strindberg. He wrote a play which is virtually incomprehensible. Various supernatural beings assemble and a certain villainous ancient is strangled by a mummified old woman. In the final act the hero admonishes the audience to be good because man's sins will seek him out. While the moral is clear...