Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play itself would cause no exultation. But Ethel Barrymore acts the part of the jaded lovelady of Budapest who meets a sleek male counterpart. Ensues a mutual struggle against sentiment. Even in Budapest it is difficult not to care for the person with whom one has an affair, so after the child is born, a tremulous surrender to the exigencies and joys of affection occurs high in a Swiss chalet. This cycle of repression and catharsis is endowed with the mysteries of personality and feeling by Actress Barrymore, statuesquely assisted by Louis Calhern...
Elliot Cabot and Miriam Hopkins play the lovers. But their ardors are scarcely as exciting as the tart philosophizing of old Mrs. Pesta, a female shard, played by Helen Westley of the Guild Board of Directors. Director Westley has acted in 37 of the Guild's 70 productions. As the mother of Susi she makes the first act so brilliant that the last two are inevitably the worse for her longer absence from the stage...
Fifteen years ago three men sat in a bookshop. They argued as to whether Lord Dunsany's play The Glittering Gate was easy to act. Finding a copy of it on a shelf, they made the simplest test. Robert Edmond Jones shaped scenery from wrapping paper. Philip Moeller and Edward Goodman gestured, intoned romantic lines. Helen Westley, who happened in, was audience. From this beginning came the Washington Square Players and eventually the Theatre Guild.* Starting officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue...
...Worcester, Mass., last week went France's learned Ambassador-Poet-Play-wright Paul Claudel. His purpose: to visit Assumption College on its 25th anniversary. So distinguished a Frenchman as he could not go to Worcester without causing a civic demonstration. Fully one-quarter of Worcester's total population (197,600) is foreign-born and mostly French or French-Canadian. Of Worcester's four daily newspapers, one, l'Opinion Publique, is printed in French. When ce brave Monsieur Claudel arrived in Worcester, he found 30,000 cheering citizens waiting for him. Assumption College was M. Claudel...
Beginning the series of class baseball games which will last until May 26 on which date the class winners will play the Yale class winners at New Haven, the Sophomore class team will usage the Freshman All-Dormitory nine this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Soldiers Field...