Word: sovey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laid entirely in a court room which Designer Raymond Sovey has managed to make look astonishingly solid and permanent, Libel! concerns an action brought by one Sir Mark Loddon (Colin Clive) against a London newspaper which has made so bold as to declare that he "is not a Baronet, nor even a Loddon, and can hardly be accurately described as a Member of Parliament, as he secured his return by practicing on the electorate the same deliberate fraud he practiced on his wife." In theory the plaintiff but in fact the defendant. Lord Loddon is gravely suspected of having exchanged...
Additional injections of atmosphere are made between scenes-while some extremely simple and effective scenery by Raymond Sovey is being shifted-by the appearance of a number of cowpunchers who sing old Western songs. This technique is not unlike that of Girl Crazy, the musicomical neighbor of Green Grow the Lilacs. When one overcomes the impression that Green Grow the Lilacs is a succession of song cues, it becomes a diverting presentation...
...play in four acts and five scenes by Turgenev. Translated from the Russian by S. M. Mandell. Acting Version by Rouben Mamoulian. Produced under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian. Setting and Costumes by M. S. Dobuzinsky. Executed by Raymond Sovey. Being presented now at the Tremont Theatre by the Theatre Guild as the third in its series of Boston productions with the following cast: Herr Shaaf Charles Kraus Anna Semenova (Islaev's mother) Minna Phillips Natalie Petrovna (Islaev's wife) Alla Nazimova Mikhail Aleksandrovitch Rakitin Earle Larrimore Lizaveta Bogdanovna (a companion) Virginia Gregori Kolia (Islaev's son) Norman Williams Aleksei...
...best theatrical offerings now playing in Boston. Miss Cowl enters into the spirit of this charmingly vivacious comedy with a whole heart and she is well supported by an adequate east; especially Loon Quartermaine in the part of Malvolio. Added to this, the settings by Raymond Sovey are unusually clever and beautiful. The text is practically complete and the musical arrangement by Macklyn Marrow completes a good production...