Word: one-act
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...Author! We want the author!" cried the Abbey Players' audience. They got him. As the curtain fell on his one-act play, famed William Butler Yeats, 67, a portly, grey-haired gentleman, stepped upon the stage. Then one great Irishman spoke briefly about another. The spirit of Swift, Poet-Senator Yeats explained, still broods over the Emerald Isle. The tragedy and wisdom of Swift permeate, he feels, the Irish character. That was what he had tried to get at in his play. He thanked one & all for their attention, left the theatre as the curtain rose on Synge...
...Undergraduate Edna St. Vincent Millay, precocious senior at Vassar College, finished a one-act play in verse. The Princess Marries the Page. It was her first play. While the rest of the U. S. was buckling into the machine that was to send A. E. F. divisions catapulting into France, seven Vassar girls were whispering and giggling over their parts. On the much-rehearsed night Authoress Millay played the Princess, took many a curtain call. Next year, as a real grown-up actress, she played the same part in Manhattan's arty Provincetown Playhouse. Life began to go fast...
...Basle last month, from all over Europe, went delegates to a conference of Young Theologians. News of them reached the U. S. last week. They discussed their attempts to rescue the Modern Man. Chief feature of the conference was a one-act play presented by the British delegates, in which the Modern Man is approached by a Fundamentalist with an enormous Bible, a pompous Anglo-Catholic, a cordial member of the Buchman Groups, a Modernist who cuts most of his Bible into little bits. None succeeds in rousing Modern Man from his sleep. At last comes a Barthian...
...Benelli provided him with a libretto which cried for music of exquisite passion and tenderness. The fact that parts of it recall the music of Tristan & Isolde never seemed important. Montemezzi's score has surge and spontaneity of its own, enough to arouse high hopes for his one-act La Notte di Zoraima (The Night of Zoraima), given its U. S. premiere last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...chiefly to the effect that it was a pity Author Wilder had not chosen a U. S. scene. When The Angel That Troubled the Waters and The Woman of Andros showed him still far from home, deprecatory chirps became louder. In The Long Christmas Dinner, a collection of six one-act plays no commercial producer would care to put on. Author Wilder has returned at last to the U. S. But The Long Christmas Dinner will give little aid & comfort to patriotic critics: no potential bestseller, its appeal is limited to the intelligentsia, for the affluent of whom there...