Word: pirandello
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pirandello...
Arriving last week in Manhattan was Luigi Pirandello, Italian author of the fantastic Six Characters in Search of an Author. Signer Pirandello is a professor of philosophy at the Normal College in Rome. His first visit to America will be devoted to lecturing and inspecting the Pirandello cycle of several plays which Brock Pemberton will present in the middle of January...
Floriani's Wife. Academically interesting, but not emotionally vigorous, this play by Luigi Pirandello (Italian playwright, who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author) arrived in a Greenwich Village theatre, off the beaten Broadway track. It tells of a wayward woman, her attempt to return to her child and husband, her failure. Margaret Wycherly is the redeeming feature. But even the fire of her intelligent performance shines but dimly under the bushel of interminable talk...
...England -Russia-Bolshevik prisons. ... In other words, Mr. Oppenheim's second book of the current year, displays his usual deft talent for spectacular plot and thrilling incident, though a confirmed Oppenheimer sadly misses the customary criminal secret society with its grips and passwords. THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL-Luigi Pirandello-Dutton ($2.50). What is human identity? Your mind? Your body? Your clothes? Your official papers? Mattia Pascal wondered -when an accident gave him a chance to flee from an unpleasant wife, a snarling mother-in-law, unbearable surroundings. The identification of a stray corpse as his own covered his tracks...
...recent adventure of the Idler Club of Radcliffe into the fields of conversational farce proved highly successful. It was interesting to those interested in the theatre because it brought for the first time on the American stage Pirandello's "It's So If You Think It's So". And the performance was one of merit. Especially well handled were the parts played by Miss Middleton and Miss Woodworth. Pirandello, whose "Six Characters in Search of an Author" has been a great success for the past New York season, is seen here toying with a charming idea in the form...