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...James M. Barrie, British playwright: " In London, attention was called to the fact that three plays by me?What Every Woman Knows at the Apollo, The Will (one-act) at the St. Martin's, Rosalind (one^act) at the Criterion?are running simultaneously, and that a fourth, The Little Minister, would soon be revived...
...Author. Floyd Dell was born in Barry, Ill., in 1887. He has worked in factories, on farms, at odd jobs ? written poems, a number of one-act plays, essays on feminism, a book on education ? been literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post, editor of The Masses and The Liberator, special writer for various New York newspapers. He is married and lives at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. Mr. Dell's previous novels are Moon-Calf (1920) and The Briary-Brush...
Eugene O'Neill, generally regarded as the foremost American playwright, has fused a number of his early one-act plays into a longer drama. Scholars will remember them mainly as sea sketches, with The Moon of the Caribbees the major representative. The long play will be given by the Provincetown players, who first accorded O'Neill metropolitan recognition...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, impresario of the Metropolitan Opera House, cabled from Milan that he has obtained producing rights for I Compagnacci, a new one-act opera by the Italian composer, Primi Ricitelli, young pupil of Mascagni. The first performance of the work was given at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome in April. The opera will be performed at the Metropolitan next season as a companion piece with Laparra's La Habanera...
Then there is the Grand Guignol-the theatre of one-act playlets of horror and somewhat ribald mirth. No American visit to Paris is quite complete without one seance at the Grand Guignol. The Vieux Colombie-a highly original repertory company of experimentalists in the new stagecraft-should furnish you with several delightful evenings, even if you understand as little French as most New York theatrical critics do Russian. The Guitrys whatever they are acting in, individually or collectively, are worth observation. The Pitoeff company playing at the Comedie Champs Elysees, in The Lower Depths, Androcles and the Lion...