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...towel, the sage councilors' hats, victrola records. The realistic furniture of the stage is transcended by the art of dramatic construction, so nobody is annoyed because the hero appears in a cutaway with only a sash to suggest his outlandish time and environment. The naivetÉ of this Provincetown presentation adds immensely to its charm, though once in a while there is a trace of mawkish self-consciousness...
...Macgowan, who addressed the Ford Hall Forum last night, has been dramatic critic for three metropolitan newspapers, has been Director of the Provincetown Playhouse and the Green-which Village Theatre, and is at present Director of the Actors' Theatre in New York...
...Dream Play. Strindberg's unwieldy and unhappy picture of the futility of life has been brought to being for the first time in the U. S. by the Provincetown Playhouse. As indicated by the title the action follows the wild imaginings of one whose mind is unlocked in sleep. Wealth and pleasure, disease and religion are all surveyed in a swift succession of dismal pictures ending in something like death. Christ walking upon the waters is one of the incidents. Though not badly acted by Mary Fowler and Stanley Howlett, the production is pretty generally heavy going...
...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...