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From Maine to North Carolina last week, converted barns were clamorous with off-season revivals. Most ambitious bit of resuscitation was undertaken by The County Theatre of Suffern, N. Y., which presented Mazeppa, or The Fierce Tartarian Steed. Hard to deduce from this over-whimsified, bucolic performance is the fact that Mazeppa is one of the most ancient and honorable horse operas in the language...
...Mazeppa inspires a gaudy first-act curtain by shooting the fiance of the King's only daughter. Before the hoopla has subsided, Mazeppa, traditionally played by a curve-some female, has been tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their Taming of the Shrew, the role of the high-tempered stallion is reduced to comic relief. But riding one of his flesh-&-blood predecessors back in the 1860s, Adah Isaacs Menken, most celebrated Mazeppa of them all, was bruised...
...FRANCIS Suffern...
Died. Ellen Gates Starr, 80, co-founder with the late Jane Addams of Chicago's famed Hull House; after long illness; in Suffern...
...cinema earning power. Noteworthy cinemactors of this year's silo season are: Kitty Carlisle in her debut as a straight actress in French Without Tears (White Plains, N. Y.) ; Paulette Goddard in French Without Tears (Dennis, Mass.); Jean Muir in Much Ado About Nothing, High Tor (Schenectady and Suffern, N. Y.); Mary Brian in Honey (Dennis, Mass.) ; Douglass Montgomery in Berkeley Square (Cedarhurst, L. I.); Madge Evans in Stage Door (Suffern, N. Y.); Jane Wyatt (Coquette, Stage Door, Biography) and Elissa Landi (The Lady Has a Heart) at various resorts...