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Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here...
...Chatham the Little Theatre, at Centerville the Mary Young Theatre (leading lady: Dorothy Stone) start their seasons this week. Provincetown's historic Wharf Theatre, a descendant of George Cram Cook's and Mary Heaton Vorse's old Provincetown Playhouse where Eugene O'Neill's work was first performed, carries on with a ten-week season opening with Leona Powers in Her Master's Voice. Most successful of Cape summer companies is Raymond Moore's Cape Play-house at Dennis. A landscape painter fresh from Leland Stanford, Director Moore served a hitch...
CIRCUS CLUB--Pop Corn, peanuts, Pink lemonade, tanbark, and amusing murals realistically duplicate the atmosphere under the Big Tents. Sally Nye's new three ring circus is well-known to thousands of folk who journey to Provincetown in the summer. For membership and reservations, phone John DEV-onshire...
...sketches and paints in near-professional manner but has not lost his amateur standing as an artist. He writes wherever he happens to be, finds crowded Provincetown on Cape Cod as good a place to work as any. There in his harborside cottage he lives between travels, with his handsome wife. (She writes for women's magazines under the name of Katherine Smith...
...liking for professional discussion of his own or his contemporaries' work. He considers writing a full-time job like any other. His own working habits are as steady as a farmer's. He gets up early, works through the morning wherever he happens to be. In Provincetown he swims before lunch, goes sailing every afternoon, takes little or no part in Provincetown's art-colony doings. Since he is traveling most of the time his household has something of the air of a dwelling that is just being moved into, with trunks and crates crowding the back...