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...Current Trends in the American Theater" will be the subject of an address by George Sklar, co-author with Paul Peters of the revue "Parade," at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Harvard and Radcliffe chapters of the National Student League...
...graduate of Professor Baker's noted school of the drama at Yale, Sklar became well known when one of his early plays, written in collaboration with Albert Maltz, was banned in New York during the Tammany administration because of its expository nature...
...Sklar and Peters have enjoyed considerable success with their recent play "Stevedore," now playing in London...
...book (product of the combined efforts of Paul Peters, George Sklar, Frank Gabrielson, and David Lesan) although arranged in the conventional form of independent sketches, has a definite and consistent undertone of social consciousness. Starting off with biting and amusing satire on the devious methods of the New Deal, it grows into a subtle and persuasive indictment of some of the more annoying phases of our social attitude. Toward the end of the performance the attack became vigorous, and seemed to make the assembled gentry a bit unhappy, but Boston first night audiences cannot be expected to wax enthusiastic...
Stevedore (by Paul Peters & George Sklar; Theatre Union, producer). It is an ironical fact that propaganda is always most enthusiastically received where it accomplishes the least. Stevedore, a drama of Negro peonage in the South, will certainly never be produced in New Orleans, on the docks of which its scene is laid. But it may deservedly run for months in the Civic Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's 14th Street, with febrile audiences largely recruited from the neighborhood. Union Square, centre of racial tolerance, is little more than a tear gas bomb's throw away...