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...called "little" theatres operate on several principles-to encourage playwrights, to develop actors, to please an audience, to absorb the self-expressive energies of a community. The Provincetown Players were founded by the late George Cram Cook on premises including all these principles. Some results: the bringing-to-light of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, Actor Charles Gilpin, Stage-Designer Robert Edmund Jones...
Rapid Transit. From Lajos N. Egri, Hungarian, ten years resident in the U. S., Horace Liveright bought a play. Since many a Hungarian writes at least one play, this is not remarkable. Since the Provincetown Playhouse, where Rapid Transit is presented, is a tiny place, it is remarkable that the production actually came off. For it employs a cast of almost 70 persons, all racing about in the throes of excitement and confusion incidental to this iron age. The furor is the result of bungling man's efforts to adjust his life, political organization, education, to the whizzing circle...
Pericles of Provincetown* "What is it, this thing we call personality? One wants to tell about a man, 'make him real.' He is an intellectual man and a religious man, a man with a great gift of wonder, so one tells much of the life within, particularly as he himself has left the record, tells truly as one knows how, of struggles and failures as well as visions that became creations. All this is true, yet somehow the man himself is not there...
...Abraham's Bosom. Eugene O'Neill brought the Greenwich Village Provincetown Theatre to theatrical, artistic prominence. When he went "uptown," the Provincetown came upon evil days. Along comes another Moses to lead them out of debt. He is Paul Green, young North Carolina teacher, author, playwright...
...better Bostonians to that sudden descent of the curtain which ends the show there in no time when anyone dares to remember that he paid so and so for his ticket. Perhaps Mr. Leo Bulgakov of the Moscow Art Theatre is doing better justice to Gozzi at the Provincetown than could ever be done on the shores of Brattle, but Stark Young would have to admit that this is an improvement over "Brown of Harvard"-with all due justice to the mauve menagerie...