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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Civic Repertory-Great plays at popular prices ($1.50 top). Eva Le Gallienne...
...proposed Larkin tower in New York is to be 1208 feet high. It will overtop the Woolworth building and the Eiffel tower, and it will seriously threaten the limits of human credibility. It is to be an office building, with the four top stories given over to sightseers; but from the architect's drawing there is to be no mother-of-pearl gilding such as makes the Singer building gaudy. It is to be strictly business...
...comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
...winter duty. Like a burly policewoman, she pushed her way through crashing, shrieking ice to see what the trouble was. Where the pack was solid, she would back away, and, with a schlup and a slide and a scream of steam, she was high out of water, half on top of the ice. The ice would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed her way up the St. Mary's, freed this ship and that, brought food and fuel to sailors. With continued cold, she may not reach all ships...
...arms of his brother, Andrew, a born farmer, seeks refuge in the ship that Robert has forsaken. Both men cross their natures. Both come to ruin. After futile years of wandering, Andrew finds his way back to the fields. Robert, dying of tuberculosis and despair, stumbles to the top of the hill for a last earthly vision of the horizon that had always beckoned to him. Dead, he enters who can say what felicity? The production is beautiful. After doing the Babbitts for almost a year, Robert Keith covers himself with glory as the dreamer of the hill. Aline MacMahon...