Word: shubertism
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...Franz Shubert, son of Lee J. Shubert, well-known producer, made a special trip to Cambridge yesterday to see the production. He played a large part in making possible the present showing of the play, the first in America...
...Shubert Company is showing great interest in the Club's present pro- duction, and it is possible that it may produce the play in New York professionally. The firm has done much help the Dramatic Club present the piece, having gotten it the German edition for translation by Martin Henry, instructor in German. The Club has a policy of presenting only those plays which have never been shown in the country, and many have been later produced on Broadway...
This will be the first presentation of the drama in the United States, and is being given with the cooperation and permission of Lee Shubert & Co., New York producers. It has had successful runs at European theatres, with the first production at Berlin in 1930, and later at the second Moscow Art Theatre. The German title of the play is "Napoleon Greift...
...Uncle Vanya" was given last year by the Theatre Guild in New York at the Shubert Theatre and was produced by Jed Harris. Lillian Gish was starred in the part of Helens and Eugene Powers in the role of Alexander Serebrakoff...
...Little Racketeer was first a German comedy, then it was set to music, now it has been translated, generally revamped with lyrics by one who can write them almost as well as Lorenz Hart: Edward Eliscu. For their production the Brothers Shubert have retained the services of a number of comely girls, some Albertina Rasch dancers with wooly heads, and Queenie Smith. Ingenuous, flaxen-haired Miss Smith is the waif who insinuates herself into people's homes, makes a livelihood from the food, drink, tips they give her. A Little Racketeer is concerned with one instance in which this cozzening...