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Absent from the banquet was Columbia's expert Scenarist Robert Riskin who also collaborated with Director Frank Capra on Lady for a Day, Broadway Bill and whose The Whole Town's Talking last week had its Manhattan première (see below). Now 40, Scenarist Riskin was brought up in Baltimore, attended Columbia University for two years. After 15 years as a cinema director, playwright, free-lance producer and scenarist, he struck his stride with Lady for a Day, has since become one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers.* He lives at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, plays...
...Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck had been her singing master in Vienna and when he wanted to produce a new opera in Paris she saw that he had his way. Last week, when it was 163 years old, Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide was given its U.S. première by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia...
...inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving Mr. Stebbins of Wagner's "Wotan." There was some difficulty about getting a theatre. The première at the last minute was postponed four days. But on Feb. 26, 1930, The Green Pastures was finally presented in Manhattan...
...show ran 18 months in New York, won a Pulitzer Prize, and after 1,652 performances in 203 towns in 39 States and one Canadian province which grossed approximately $3,000,000, returns to Manhattan this week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its première. Chu Chin Chow, which opened in London in 1916 and closed three years after the Armistice, ran long enough (2,238 performances) for practically every soldier in the Allied armies to have seen it. Abie's Irish Rose, which got to be a national habit, played 2,532 performances in New York...
Audiences at the world première of his 33rd full-length play in Manhattan last week found that a half century had not improved Bernard Shaw as a dramatic structuralist. Loyal Shavians were quite prepared for that, since their idol has never wasted much time on the packaging of his products. What they were not prepared for was the woefully stale and shopworn condition of the product itself...