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Repertory Confined to One-Act Plays...
Thus far the Jitney Players have produced one-act plays only. Whether they will give longer productions has not been determined. But their success in short works has been unequivocal. A group of three plays generally makes a bill, with the play weightiest in dramatic content in the middle, and a comedy...
...encouraging to note that the people of the country are, in the mood for better plays. And it has been a pleasure to us actors to read the one-act plays that have come from the 47 Workshop, many of them perfect gems. For we realize what a tremendous force for good 2000 James Barries could exert in this country. Naturally, your Workshop could not trun Barries out of the whole cloth, but certainly it has already shown that it has helped at least a few such to find themselves. But at this time it is pathetic, the note...
...GLENCAIRN-The Eugene O'Neill cycle of one-act plays moved up from Greenwich Village. Powerful primitives of our first dramatist...
Incomparably the most popular of contemporary composers, Puccini was born at Lucca, Italy, 1858. His father, his grandfather, his great-grandfather had all composed music. He attracted attention when his one-act opera Le Villi was successfully performed at La Scala, Milan. His next work, Edgar, was a failure; but he won note with Manon Lescaut, and international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short...