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Like last week's other revivals (see cols. 2 & 3), Miss Adams' had its peculiarities. She herself performed not as Viola but in the minor part of Maria. The play was equipped with a prolog and epilog suggested by Miss Adams and written by old-time Dramacritic Walter Prichard Eaton, which attempted to give Twelfth Night the flavor of a play within a play. In the prolog, while the players bargained with an innkeeper and set up their props, supernumeraries, representing members of a 17th Century audience at a country theatre "try-out," gathered in the stage boxes...
...Capitalism-about the recognition by what II Popolo called the "ultra-Capitalistic" Roosevelt Administration of the Soviet Union (see p. 10). "The barriers raised by the traditional orthodoxy of the Republic of the Stars and Stripes," editorialized Vito Mussolini, "have crashed under the weight of realities. ... Is this a prolog to a new international morality? . . . The Republic of the Stars and Stripes ... is the supreme conciliator of extreme contradictions, such as puritanism and Hollywood or such as the thrift of the farmers of the West and the audacities of Wall Street...
...Federal Building and scurried to find seats in a courtroom on the third floor, a courtroom with faded yellow walls, with cracks and patches and the dingy paint and plaster off its ceiling. In this grim auditorium with miserable acoustics, they settled down to see a show. As prolog they enjoyed 20 minutes of minor prohibition and narcotic cases. Then court bailiffs cleared the auditorium...
Dear Jane opens with a prolog in London's Cheshire Cheese tavern. Time: the night of Dec. 16, 1775. There sits grumbling Dr. Johnson, eating dirtily with James Boswell, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick. The talk is not of the Yankee rebellion but of women?how silly, superficial, lacking in humor and the ability for "true creation'' they are. Just to show up the testy lexicographer. Playwright Hinkley implies, Divine Providence was at that moment bringing Jane Austen into the world. She appears in person on the stage at the age of 23. No one in the audience would realize...
Edward Pawley's acting, Cleon Throck-morton's fast-moving sets, Egon Brecher's wise direction, the novelty of the idea for the stage make Two Seconds interesting, sometimes impressive. The electrocution in the prolog gives the subsequent action some of the grim inevitableness of last season's The Last Mile...