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...Characters In Search Of An Author, rated by most critics as Luigi Pirandello's best play, was first presented in the U. S. eight years ago. Like all Pirandello plays, it is clouded with metaphysical vaporings. "What is Reality?" the dramatist asks. "What is Illusion...
...lecture on "Contemporary Literature in Italy." Averardi intends to deal particularly with the brilliant Italian dramatist. Luigi Pirandello, whose play, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" was very popular several years ago and who has several plays scheduled for the current theatrical season in New York...
...came to the U. S., found New York too much for him; learned what it was to be a "poor nigger," reverted to type, because he did not know anything else to do. The Author. Orio Vergani is 31 years old, is an Italian. Onetime manager of Dramatist Luigo Pirandello's theatre in Rome, he is the author of six books, is a journalist on Milan's Corriere delta Sera, likes boxing, traveling, the cinema. In 1922 he went to Paris to see the championship bout between Frenchman Georges Carpentier and Battling Siki, onetime Senegalese phenomenon; he became...
Walter Ferris, author of "Death Takes A Holiday", has done an American version of the Hungarian, Arpad Posztor's "Dice". This too is on the Professional Players' list. Another is "As You Wish Me". Pirandello's latest sensation which was produced in Milan last month. The wide interest shown in the Professional Players Organization has already resulted in a large number of subscriptions being taken...
...travels around Europe playing guest engagements at capital cities. He wears loose ties and velvet jackets, keeps pets, plays all his roles with a facile and sonorous emotionalism which does not seem to have its source in the ideas of his authors. He has played Shaw, Hauptmann, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shakespeare Euripides. When he played Redemption in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928) Commentator Alexander Woollcott called his voice "the most extraordinary ever heard in the theatre" and Robert Littell said of his acting: "It is a gorgeous bag of tricks . . . it is not a performance...