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...boards and bows tonight under the appropriate title of "Fiesta." There is no reason to doubt that it will measure up to the standard set by previous productions of the club. The lines and settings are encouraging to the peculiar zest of amateur acting, and the oldest living playgoer cannot remember when a drama by native talent had no honor in its own country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERRY CHRISTMAS | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

...enjoyed most was his interview with Jane Cowl I think the article that most amused me was the one called "Africa a Tale of the Rhinoceros" or perhaps it was a toss up between it and a burlesque of the Burton Holmes Lectures that so thrilled the CRIMSON playgoer not long age. I am going to have the drawing "After You, Magellan framed and hung in my office. We will not go into more detail, but the reader turning from page to page will be delighted with the excellence of the material as well as the care that has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around World Number Triumph--Zenith Reached in Lampoon Humor | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...clears up the situation. The French are a funny nation, but lately such businesses as assignations between unmarried ladies and gentlemen in romantic chateaux, peculiarities of love, and the like, find so many counterparts in the Bronx and even Harlem that they no longer intrigue the U. S. playgoer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...other remarkable troupes of Russian players which in the past few years have come to town. It is hard to say which of the Moscow Art Theatre or the Chauve Souris made the most lasting impression on the theatre-going public. M. Stanislavsky and his players gave the sophisticated playgoer a tonic which did much to put new blood in his veins and awake him once more to the infinite possibilities of the drama well presented. The other group, pointing ostensibly toward the other pole of the theater, gave us a new sensation in the world of the review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

...Charming People," demonstrated to the delight of hundreds the undeniable ability of at least one English actress. Her forte was, true enough, light comedy, but it was done with much more finesse than is customary over here. But, flvolous though the type is, it is immensely entertaining. The American playgoer might be willing to trade some of the more passionate exotics now treading the boards for importations such as England has on occasion furnished. Permanently to annex an Edna Best would be a pleasure, even if one had to part with for instance Mae West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOME TALENT | 12/2/1926 | See Source »

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