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...players imbue the play with a tremendous amount of intensely realistic acting which is sincere and capable but not deeply moving. Perhaps it's the fault of the manuscript which with all its professed "realism" isn't quite convincing. After all it is not striking that young actors have trouble in getting started. It is bad that the theater has to be dominated by a star system which raises box office above art and it is reasonable to assume that wives who go abedding with their leading men may lose their husbands. This is all true and real...
...Eden End" is a comedy which is funny, but not quite uproariously so. "The Night of January 16th" is chiefly remarkable in that it allows a jury selected from the audience to settle its little murder mystery. Osgood Perkins" excellent comic work makes "On Stage" better than its manuscript. "Personal Appearance" presents Miss Gladys George as a big star with some very amusing lines and situations. "Pride and Prejudice" opened Wednesday night and received almost unconditional approval from the savants. "A Slight Case of Murder" is approximately slightly amusing. "Squaring The Cricle" is a Soviet comedy which is apparently funnier...
...second of his lectures at Harvard, Dr. Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of the Manuscript in the British Museum and Lecturer in Celtic at the University of London, will present a talk on "Irish Poetry" tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson...
...Robin Flower, Deputy Keeper of Manuscript in the British museum and Lecturer is Celtic at the University of London, will lecture in Emerson Hall at 8.00 o'clock this evening, at the Invitation of the Department of English...
During the performance it is impossible not to be completely immersed in the production, but the cooling effect of retrospect shows that merit of the offering lies perhaps more in the work of the two leading ladies than in the virtues of the manuscript. Zoe Atkins' dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel produces a quietly accelerating story which rises in the last act to genuinely fine drama but the play's success must be attributed in large part to the lucid, mature, and movingly sincere talents of the Misses Mencken and Anderson...