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...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...
...GLENCAIRN?Four of Eugene O'Neill's earlier sea tales in a sharply etched production by the Provincetown Players...
...stories, done in the early O'Neill style, when the first indications of Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape were stirring in his brain. Since the plays have been played and published for some time, their content is familiar. It only remains to be noted that the Provincetown group set and performed them notably. There are no star parts which pull above the surface the heads of one player or another. As a company, they give a singularly complete performance...