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Because The Women Have Their Way is only two acts long, it was preceded by The Open Door, a pretentious one-act triangle play by Alfred Sutro...
Last summer Judith, a one-act opera in English based on the apocryphal legend of Judith and Holofernes,* the music by Eugene Goossens, the text by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, had its world première at London's Covent Garden (TIME, July 8). Last week Judith was given its first U. S. performance by the enterprising Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Soprano Bianca Saroya was satisfactorily bloodthirsty as Judith. Russian Basso Ivan Steschenko sang sonorously as Holofernes but failed to make intelligible the pompous passages done by Novelist Bennett in the Biblical idiom. British Composer Goossens conducted his music...
...Another one-act opera by another British conductor had its première last week in Munich. Samuel Pepys was its name, Albert Coates its composer. Librettists Richard Price and Lieut.-Col. W. P. Drury concocted a characteristic Pepys plot out of their imaginations, had the scampish Samuel entertain an actress, Mistress Knipp, with wines and spinet-playing; had Mistress Pepys return inopportunely but not until Mistress Knipp had time to disguise herself as the Merry Monarch Charles II honoring his Secretary of the Admiralty with a visit. Müncheners greatly liked this synthetic Pepys given them...
Boston debutantes will assist members of the Cercle Francais in their presentation of two one-act plays at the Fine Arts Theatre next month, it was learned yesterday when casts of "La Coeur a Ses Raisons' by Caillavet and Flers, and of "Poil de Carotte" by Renard were announced...
...titles of the two one-act plays which will be presented next month by the Cercle Francais were announced last night by W. A. C. Miller III '32, secretary of the organization. They will be: "Le Coeur a ses Raisons", by Caillavet and Flcrs; and "Poil de Carotte", by Renard...