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...most significant and hopeful portent resultant from Mr. Leiber's sojourn in the hinterlands of Castle Square, however, has been the reception accorded to his six plays. The box office has reported a steady gain,-a detail of some interest even in Shakespearian circles,-the audiences have been liberal with intelligent and audible approval, and the paying guests are nothing if not heterogeneous. Stiff shirts are more to be seen a social events such as the gold digging activities of a blond girl, and an air of student poverty permeates the atmosphere. From all appearances Shakespeare seems still...
Some seasons ago, the country was flooded with productions of Shakespeare in modern dress: played seriously, with the text of the Bard untouched. The result of most of them was scathing criticism by Shakespearian scholars...
...director, Edward Massey, has handled his subject with masterly strokes. The plot of the Shakespearian comedy is kept, with most of the characters, and some of the lines; but Mr. Massey has very artfully interpolated musical numbers, with an agile dancing chorus, to the accompaniment of a jazz band; and has interspersed the whole with modern witty dialogue. The result is an entertainment that is extremely amusing...
...McCobb's Daughter, Carrie, is played by Clare Eames, slim, high-voltage onetime Lady Macbeth in the late James K. Hackett's Shakespearian swashbuckling (crowned by France). Sidney Howard, who knew what they wanted, provides her and the Theatre Guild with an effective Down East chariot, brought up to date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage...
...average theatre-goer, meaning a mixture of the T. B. M., George Jean Nathan, and one's maiden aunt, would, if consulted, much prefer to hear Al Jolson chant the imminent arrival of the red, red robin than see him in Shakespearian roles. No tragedy, however inspiring, could afford Mr. Jolson a legitimate opportunity to bellow for his Mammy. When one wants to see a faithful portrayal of the real negro there is Paul Robeson. But Al Jolson, in spite of Eddie Cantor's admirable attempts, is absolutely unique. And now he threatens to reform...