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...which a Broadway wisecracker once termed "the flophouse of the drama," came billowing out of the imagination of a frankly stage-struck playwright named Butler Davenport, who looks like Edwin Booth (see cut). Taking over the building in 1915 left Davenport $3.17. But $3.17 floated plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Molière and Butler Davenport, with unpaid casts made up of starry-eyed young amateurs, sad-faced old professionals, milliners' assistants, postmen, stenographers, clerks. Now & then there might be a familiar Broadway name like Mary Shaw in the cast, or future Broadway names like Rose McClendon and Frank Wilson...
...School for Husbands (by Jean Bkaptiste Poquelin [Moliére]; Theatre Guild, producer). Of the Moliére play, the Theatre Guild has made a musicomedy for highbrows. The plot of the two middleaged brothers who woo their young wards with indulgence and tyranny is the same in which France's King Louis XIV played a small part in 1664. The dialog has been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman...
Richard Strauss' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Walter Straram and Orchestre des Concerts Straram (Columbia, $6) - Deft, charming character-sketches, written by Strauss as incidental music for Moliëre's comedy, expertly performed by the famed French orchestra annually at the Théâtre des Champs-Elys...
...Author. Jean-Richard Bloch, 46, born in Paris of Alsatian Jewish parentage, onetime schoolteacher, onetime soldier, is one of France's leading novelists, a playwright, director of a publishing house, assistant editor of Europe. At seven he wrote imitations of Moliére; at 26 his first play was produced at the Odeon. "- & Co." was ready for the press when the War broke out, was put on sale in August 1917, the day the German army entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs...