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The Group Theatre has been social-minded ever since its inception in 1931. To put on a theatrical fireball which was too hot for it to handle officially, the Theatre Guild in 1929-30 employed a subsidiary, the Guild Studio, to do Red Dust and Roar China, two plays fresh...
The title of the book is taken from a poem by George Meredith in which he says, "We are betrayed by what is false within." The story is a continuation of the life history of Vridar and carries him through his early married days and hectic graduate work. Fisher best...
The Right to Live (Warner). When a new actress arrives at a studio, the customary procedure is to put her in a succession of roles as dissimilar as possible, in order to find out in which category she fits best. Having "discovered" pretty Josephine Hutchinson in Manhattan's Civic...
Well primed with pumpkin pie and Pilgrim punch at a party given by sardonic John C. Wiley, charge d'affaires of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow last week, the New York Times correspondent cabled: "Russians raise pumpkins only as feed for pigs and consider it shameful for human...
His stories, as the wrapper announces find their grace and power and conviction as they reflect his own nimble curiosity and his insatiable demand for now affirmations of life." Whether, however, they present as "lucid and honest a vision as Whitman or Rousseau" is a matter for future generations to...