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Like many another play of the year (An American Tragedy, Hangman's House, Sandalwood, The Humble [from Crime and Punishment], The Constant Nymph), it is extracted from a novel. So different is the pithy compactness of the stage from the spread of the novel, that it is unfair to call these efforts "translations." They are more nearly "re-creations." Yet the play, The Brothers Karamazov, by Jacques Copeau and Jean Croue (translated into English by Rosalind Ivan) would be found to contain the full literary significance of Dostoievsky's novel, though wanting in dramatic fulfillment by reason of its uncrystalized...
Born. To Basil Dean, co-dramatist with Margaret Kennedy of The Constant Nymph (TIME, Dec. 20), and Mrs. Dean (onetime Lady Mercy Greville, daughter of the Dowager Countess of Warwick) ; a daughter (9 Ib.) in London. Playwright Dean cabled a wish she should be named Tessa, after the heroine of the play...
...Constant Nymph. Playwright Basil Dean had the help of Margaret Kennedy herself in adapting her remarkable novel but the play came out as an episode, never a legend. The footlights, scenery, players and theatre talk, excellent though they are, bury temperaments in personalities. Irony becomes friction. The one character reproduced adequately is old Sanger, who never comes on stage...
...frenzied descriptions of Noel Coward in that part, but Edna Best's Tessa in London could not have far surpassed the performance of Beatrix Thomson, quaint, perhaps too pretty, but subtly pigeontoed. It is said that all Broadway was combed to find an ingenue who knew what a constant nymph was, without success. Miss Thomson, daughter of a British army colonel, is the wife of Actor Claude Rains, who plays Roberto the hired...
...EXQUISITE PERDITA-E. Barrington-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Who will, may damn her, the unchaste nymph, Perdita Robinson. But there are extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded gruff David Garrick to train her, she was a desperate girl, desperate enough to keep Sheridan as a brother; virtuous enough, after London was at her feet, to show Sheridan her offers from the rakes and have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George...