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...NATIVE ARGOSY-Morley Callaghan- Scribner's ($2.50) Last year Morley Callaghan of Canada wrote Strange Fugitive, and was promptly likened to Ernest Hemingway of Michigan for his brusque, compact style, intently modern. His characters, of middling low mentality; his incidents, grim and macabre in their humor, smacked of contacts as a newspaper reporter. This year Author Callaghan furthers his reputation by a collection of stories, one of which-far from the best-was included in The American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk...
Under the Gaslight. Since Christopher Morley and his three colleagues discovered, at their stunt theatres in Hoboken, the awkward charms of the dramas of the '60s, there has been a general scramble for these dusty manuscripts. This one is an Augustin Daly play, first produced in 1867, and, to make it just a little quainter, an old theatre in the Bowery has been resuscitated to house...
...port, drawn across the Hudson by German cooking and the fact that Hoboken's beer has scarcely heard of the 18th amendment. It was on one of these trips that Cleon Throckmorton, scenic designer, discovered the old Rialto Theatre, buried under 70 years of dust. He interested Christopher Morley, novelist-playwright-essayist-colyumist ; Harry Wagstaff Gribble, playwright; and Conrad Milliken, lawyer-poet. Eventually the four leased it and dusted...
...gathered together a company best described as semiprofessional and last Labor Day threw the doors open for their first production, a revival of The Barker, a Broadway hit. not caring much whether they even paid expenses. They didn't. Nor did they care. They kept on, producing Mr. Morley's own play, Pleased to Meet You, reviving Broadway and The Old Soak, going into red ink but having a very pleasant time...
...Octoroon. Hissing the villain and shouting directions to the hero came back into vogue with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...