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Since the opening of a splendid new theatre is a festive occasion, the following remarks about the performance will look like the death's head at a feast...
...room apartment, requires a claustrophobic atmosphere, while the stage is open to the audience on three sides. The sets were properly dingy, but never managed to show up properly the incongruity between their dinginess and the pseudo-gentility of Blanche's efforts at redecoration. Ruth Branad's costumes were splendid, even down to Stanley's bright red pajamas...
...about world population. He has just heard of the theories of Malthus and has read somewhere that, at a certain stage of development, the human embryo has gills like a fish. With these things in mind, he thinks: "Why should the country waste its potential fish reserves? In the Splendid Future, the fishlike embryo would be turned to good account. Carefully extracted from the womb, they would be conditioned to a separate existence in pools set aside especially for them. There they would grow scales and fins under the supervision of the State. And next door to the abortarium there...
...performance would have looked good in any production, and seemed splendid in this one: Clayton Corzatte's Puck. Corzatte was nimble of foot and voice, moving always with grace and speaking with great clarity and in bell-like tones that become extraordinary during incantations. Perhaps the only fault in his performance was an occasional tendency to speak too rapidly, and even this can be excused as an attempt to get the wretched evening over with...
...your splendid article on women in politics, you mention Rudd Smith, running for Congress in our 21st District. I think you will find she is Rudd Brown, wife of Harrison Brown of Caltech...