Word: provincetowners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Never Died. The determined and generally erratic Provincetown Playhouse is again busy with a wild experiment. From the pen of Charles Webster, an actor, they have produced a play about a man who discovers the secret of eternal life. This secret is not a matter of potions and glands; it is rather some spiritual understanding of the future so satisfying that the casual troubles of the world do not wear out the body. All this comes out in the last half of the play. The first half is a murder mystery very much like that in any Broadway mystery play...
...left Columbia, became interested in social and literary work. He became Editor of The Masses and a promoter-actor in the Provincetown Players. In 1918 The Masses was suppressed, but later reorganized into The Liberator. He founded the first men's league for woman suffrage. Lately, he has lived abroad...
...bent upon enjoyment. It enjoyed itself, much as it still does, with inquiries into forbidden things. Congreve was at once the most facile and the most witty of the inquirers. His plays are frankly fragile conversations, bent chiefly upon satire of love, as it was then conveniently called. The Provincetown Playhouse group, which have several times more than justified their first season fanfare of intelligent plays produced for the intelligent, gave the piece a satisfactory display. Most of their usual players (Helen Freeman, Edgar Stehli, Walter Abel, E. J. Ballantine, Perry Ivins) were in the cast and accounted for themselves...
Michel Auclair. This play, sponsored by the Provincetown group, is a pledge of lost hopes, a souvenir of misshapen direction. The author (Charles Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills...
Patience. It has long been the experience of diligent navigators that it is difficult to look through a folded-up telescope. Some similar difficulty was encountered in watching this capsule review of one of the best of Gilbert and Sullivan. It was produced at the tiny Provincetown Playhouse where three's a crowd on the stage and where the auditorium has all the lofty spaciousness of a doll's house. Necessarily, therefore, the "20 lovesick maidens we" of the opening chorus were reduced to ten, the dragoons enlistment was meagre, the orchestra minute and the vocal acrobatics tempered...