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...Brothers Karamazov. The first Guild play of the season, Juarez and Maximilian, failed. Then followed Ned McCobb's Daughter, Pygmalion, The Silver Cord, all successes. Now comes The Brothers Karamazov, in five long acts. It, too, seems destined for success...
...Silver Cord. It matters little to Playwright Sidney Howard that Ned McCobb's Daughter (TIME, Dec. 13) must give way on alternate weeks to The Silver Cord. He wrote them both, is one of the few who have had two plays produced by the Theatre Guild in the same season. His new opus is a pungent satire savagely directed against the popular sentimentality that breathes violet perfume on "mother love." A wit in the audience loudly announced after the curtain line "Now to go home and shoot mother...
...McCobb's Daughter, Carrie, is played by Clare Eames, slim, high-voltage onetime Lady Macbeth in the late James K. Hackett's Shakespearian swashbuckling (crowned by France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage...
...Burkhard's sect. 10, Sever 36 Mr. Cawley's sect. 2, Sever 6 Mr. Stevens's sect. 3, Sever 17 Mr. Herrick's sect. 4, Sever 18 Mr. Cawley's sect. 5, Sever 23 Dr. Pettingill's sect. 6, Sever 24 Prof. Bierwirth's sect. 6, Sever 29 Mr. McCobb's sect. 8, Sever 30 Mr. McCobb's sect. 9, Sever 35 Mr. Stevens's sect. 11, Sever 5 History 44, Sever 6 Mathematics 22, Sever 5 Psychology 23, Sever 23 Romance Philology 6, Sever 17 2 P. M. French A: Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, Emerson D Sections...
...Sever 6 German A: Prof. Bierwirth's sect. 7, Sever 29 Mr. Burkhard's sect. 1, Sever 5 Mr. Burkhard's sect. 10, Sever 6 Mr. Cawley's sect. 2, Sever 35 Mr. Cawley's sect. 5, Sever 36 Mr. Herrick's sect. 4, Sever 11 Mr. McCobb's sect. 8, Sever 17 Mr. McCobb's sect. 9, Sever 18 Dr. Pettengill's sect. 6, Sever 30 Mr. Stevens's sect. 3, Sever 23 Mr. Stevens's sect. 11, Sever 24 German 9b, Sever 5 Mathematics 14a, Sever 24 Philosophy 5 hf. Emerson J Physics 4b, Pierce...