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Heretofore the club has given but one play a year, which was presented in December. Henceforth, however, it will give a serious play in the fall, and follow it with several one-act plays of the modern less-serious type...
Back to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after a six-year furlough, came Gianni Schicchi, one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini, last of an uninspiring triptych. Giuseppe De Luca was Schicchi, the canny peasant who, to oblige avaricious relatives, substitutes himself for the corpse only to double-cross them and leave everything to himself; was a good enough buffoon to keep people's minds off the diluted melodies sketchily flung together; and sent them home snickering...
...Professor Eliot who originated the Workshop at the Northampton college, had much experience in producing plays before he joined the Smith faculty. He worked for a year with Winthrop Ames in New York, and later directed Little Theatre companies in Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and has edited several volumes of one-act plays, published as "The Little Theatre Classics." At Harvard he studied under his uncle, Professor Baker...
Yesterday a bill of four experimental one-act plays was given at Smith, and Professor Eliot will choose from these the one best acted and with the most finished scenery. The choice lies between Beatrice Major's "Thirty Minutes in a Street", with 20 characters in the cast, at one extreme, and Diona Barnes' "The Dove", with three, at the other. It is expected, however, that because of its gorgeous setting and costumes, Professor, Eliot will bring Dunsany's "Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles" to Boston...
...best play, to Willis Richardson of Washington, D. C, for The Broken Banjo, a one-act play (produced after the awarding of the prizes...