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...Provincetown Theatre. Messrs. Eugene O'Neill (dramatist), Robert Edmond Jones (artist) and Kenneth Macgowan (author) have rounded out their best experimental bill to date and have established the place of their little theatre-doing things well that would not be done at all-anywhere else...
Heywood Broun, famed theatre critic: "In a play criticism I concocted a mixed metaphor: 'It is not unreasonable that it [the Provincetown Playhouse] should occasionally bring forth base metal...
...communities where the "little red schoolhouse" is still considered the ultimate ideal of things scholastic, even the teaching of the three rudimentary R's is often inefficient and unsatisfactory. If this state of affairs is remedied, and an effective system installed which would insure better, more uniform standards from Provincetown to San Francisco, Dean Churchill's educational millenium would be considerably nearer at hand...
...dramatic miscegenation will shortly be enacted in the Provincetown Playhouse, Manhattan, by a brilliant Negro named Paul Robeson and a brilliant white named Mary Blair. The producers are the Provincetown Players, headed by Eugene O'Neill, dramatist; Robert Edmund Jones, artist, and Kenneth Macgowan, author. Many white people do not like the idea. Neither do many black...
Mary Blair is playing in the current Provincetown production Fashion. She was at one time associated with the Washington Square Players. She played in the insect comedy The World We Live In, and has appeared in others of Mr. O'Neill's plays, notably Diff'rent and The Hairy Ape. When Mr. O'Neill was writing All God's Chillun, so the story goes, he had her definitely in mind for the part. Unfounded press reports to the effect that other actresses had been offered and had refused the part were denied by the actresses themselves, but their denials have...