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...Three one-act plays will be given by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies at Agassiz House, Radcliffe, at 8.15 o'clock on Saturday evening. This is a repetition of a similar performance given by the two groups last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENORAH SOCIETY WILL PRESENT THREE PLAYS | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

...gala performance of Barrie's one-act plays, staged by a society of amateurs, was crowded with brilliantly uniformed foreign officers and brilliantly gowned women. The street lights reflect a miniature Paris, but in some respects more beautiful because the harbor, with its many foreign warships, illuminates this extraordinary Yangtze metropolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Inglorious Victory | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

American Grand Guignol. One might expect the French horror-plays, in view of the season's successful exploitation of all phases of sex perversion, to prove fascinating box-office material. Not so. Perhaps it is because the theatre is way down in one of the Greenwich Village nooks of inaccessibility; possibly because one-act plays do not sell in Manhattan; possibly, also, because the production is heavyhanded. In one play, a paralytic suddenly discovers he has the ability to strangle daughter-in-law, which he does with gusto. In another, choice Chinese diabolisms are dramatized. On the whole, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...cinema. When he acted in George M. Cohan's The Tavern in 1920 people remembered what a good actor he could be. Last autumn he appeared in the Theatre Guild's production, Juarez and Maximilian. The week before he died he was headlined in a one-act play, Kidnapped, at the Flatbush Theatre, Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Daly | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...tonight's meeting two one-act plays will be read and discussed. One is by R.H. Weathered '29, the other by B.C. Schoenfeld '28, both on whom are prominent in undergraduate dramatic circles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW PLAYWRIGHTS' GUILD TO HOLD OPEN MEETING TONIGHT | 1/5/1927 | See Source »

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