Word: night
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thursday night: The Cradle Song (the Sierras...
...Friday night: Inheritors (Susan Glaspell...
...Saturday night: The Sea Gull...
...always been busy and capable as a dynamo. Her parents were Poet Richard Le Gallienne, now of Rowayton, Conn., and the second of his three wives, Julie Norregaard, a Danish-born London journalist. Born and raised in England, Eva was a dauntless member of the Girl Guides. One night of ferocious wind, she alarmed her family by not returning home. Next morning she reported that when her tent had collapsed she had "crawled out from under and put it up again." In Paris, where she lived when her parents separated, she used to borrow the goat-cart in the Luxembourg...
...Miss Le Gallienne conceived the idea of the Civic Repertory Theatre. It was in Cincinnati that she put the proposition to her company. Many of them are still with her. Her backers included Otto Herman Kahn, Adolph Lewisohn, Ralph Pulitzer, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. She opened on a Monday night in 1926 with Jacinto Benavente's Saturday Night, gave Tchekov's The Three Sisters on Tuesday and, scorning to start gradually, added some Ibsen later in the week. The Pictorial Review Achievement Award for that year ($5,000) helped solve her financial troubles.* Since the first season her project...