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...that Renoir is two inches behind Manet, or Degas a foot ahead?" She snarls at Nature: "I don't care if a flower grows upside down or inside out, I don't even care if it grows." She smacks down California: "It reminds me of a Shubert production." Unlike Actress Cornell, who has never made a movie, Actress Gordon has made several (The Edge of Darkness, Abe Lincoln in Illinois). Hollywood says she is snooty. Everyone says she is smart...
With Mendelssohn's "Laudati Puerl" as their featured chorale, the Radcliffe singers presented works representing both modern and classical composers. Purcell's "Nymphs and Shepherds" was the opening piece and was followed by works by Shubert, Gluek, Sweelinck, and Constantini...
...publishing a story that he had "shortchanged" some performers 74? apiece on their rehearsal pay, veteran Broadway Producer Jacob J. ("Jake") Shubert sued the theatrical trade paper Variety for libel, asked $100,000 damages...
...eager to see more of the legitimate theatre. The answer to their hunger is not a number two company of "Blossom Time," travelling up and down the country till the blossoms fade. Broadway professes to satisfy the "road" in this manner; but a worn-out road company of Shubert actors is not the solution...
There are a great many cities that could and would support such a Repertory organization, were it formed. The great difficulty that impedes such a plan is that the Shubert Brothers of Broadway control practically every weather-proof theatre east of the Mississippi, and would set the rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly...