Word: plays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...minor colyumist lately rewrote the old adage. It now reads: "All work and no play makes Jack...
Such things are ghastly to contemplate. More ghastly here, perhaps, than in any other mystery play this season. As acted by a goodly troupe including Helen Chandler, heroine, Alan Dinehart, hero, and Clarke Silvernail, Chinese servant, they wring frightened yelps from a trembling audience. Mr. Silvernail's drolleries help to relieve tension at terror stricken moments. On the way home spectators can be heard boasting they didn't believe a word...
...string of lines into his head, point out the stage and let him live the part. This theory, arising from the efficiency with which Negroes strut in musical shows, was crystallized when the Theatre Guild made its first furore of the season with Porgy, played by an uncanny troupe of colored folk. There were murmurs in the shrewd recesses of the Guild at the time that a good deal of patient teaching had gone into that performance, more perhaps than was normally expended on the most colorless cast. But these murmurs were not news. Knowingly expectant people let themselves into...
Atlas and Eva. The best part of this play was the name, and that was changed on the eve of the opening. Under the fascinating title of The Nebblepredders it is reasonable to suppose that the incurably curious, a considerable group, would have patronized pasteboard peddlers.. But the reigning dynasty thought otherwise and just called it any old thing, spelled as above. The Nebblepredders were the family concerned?Pop Nebblepredder, Ma Nebblepredder, Herbie Nebblepredder, Eva Nebblepredder, Elmer Nebblepredder, Josie Nebblepredder?all Nebblepredders. A Nebblepredder, that is to say these Nebblepredders, were poor Nebblepredders. Their hope and true salvation...
...Dane's Defense. A new repertory company of able artists (Violet Heming, Alison Skipworth, Robert Warwick, et al.) revived as their first production this play of the yeasty '90's. As everyone over 40 knows and everyone who has ever attended a course on the drama can explain, this was a slashing play. Mrs. Dane was a fallen woman, and she lied about it?to preserve her place in suburban London society and to keep the young squib whom she loved. Such conduct was reprehensible, and the neighbors, including the ineffective young swain, felt obligated to expel her. Chastity went...