Word: playgoers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Nathaniel Behrman; Theatre Guild, producer). Like George Bernard Shaw, another regular contributor of wit & wisdom to the Theatre Guild, Playwright Behrman is no longer called upon to concoct a full-fledged drama every time he has assembled enough conversation for a three-act play. Therefore an informed playgoer seldom expects to find great vital issues being wrestled around a Behrman drawing room. What he does expect is a series of sage, civilized and exhaustive discussions on Problems of the Day. This he gets in full measure in End of Summer...
...roistering entertainment in the grand style the Playgoer recommends this year's edition of George White's Scandals, held over through next week at the Boston Opera House. The skits are clever, the music very pleasant, the dancing superb. 75 George White Beauties 75 furnish a background which it must be confessed sometimes oversteps its bounds and becomes the center of attraction...
Happily donning his gladdest rags and casting aside the cultured pall of Park Square, the Playgoer moves upon Times Square. The New York boards are teeming with activity, and there are no many worthy productions that the be-Bostoned conductor of this column is all in a dither with an embarrassment of riches to recommend to his Princeton-bound public. With a dash of courage let's have at this long list of theatrical diversions...
...York critics and public when she offered "Romeo and Juliet" there last season Miss Cornell ran they play through a short New York season and has now put it on the road bringing it to the Shubert Monday night. It has been the good fortune of the Playgoer to see this production three times and he still finds it difficult to contain his rhapsodies within dignified limits. Despite changes in the cast and the natural wearing off which seven months could be expected to bring the presentation is as animated, as profoundly stirring, as magnificently performed as any Shakespearian production...
Unfortunately the Playgoer saw Brian Aherne's Mercutio and thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo. He hasn't Basil Rathbone's experienced skill but he does give the part a youthfully romantic vigor which his predecessor failed to achieve. Charles Waldron is still fine as Friar Lawrence, and Florence Roed is excellent as the nurse, though perhaps not quite up to the standard which Edith...