Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play closes weakly enough, neither answering nor emphasizing the problem on which it is constructed. The Major, compelled to recognize his servant as a man, explains the circumstances of the murder to a French official who is full of stagey gallantry. Then, taking Israel Dubois with him, Major Powell starts going home...
Long before the first golden-rod grows bright in far away fields, the yellow lights of the new season are raised above Broadway. By September, usually, the first hit has arrived in town; the streets off Times Square are crammed with stage folk who hope this winter not to play Des Moines; the dramatic critics, yellow and sick from uncustomary contact with the sun, are once more being kittenish on the keys. At the centre of all this glittering activity are the producers; it depends upon them whether the new year shall be tawdry or delightful...
...Theatre Guild will open its season with Goethe's Faust, directed by Friedrich Holl, follow with a Shaw revival in November and carry through the winter with Meteor by S. N. Behrman and Sil-Vara's Playing at Love. Possibly also the Guild will do a new O'Neill play tentatively entitled Dynamo, Romain Rolland's The Game of Love and Death, Turgenev's A Month in the Country or The Genius and His Brother, by Sil-Vara...
...grocery store in which they labor with perfect equanimity, knowing their business well and putting up packages that are tidy though unwrapped. This year the Shuberts plan to produce three operettas, one musical comedy, three musical versions of books, a "spectacular musical extravaganza," musical entertainment, two revues and a play...
George M. Cohan's list this year includes Ring Lardner's frequently re-christened Elmer the Great. Aside from that, it is made up of a musical comedy by himself, and a play for Grant Mitchell and one by and for the Nugents...