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...Washington, Cincinnati, Detroit, St. Louis, as Guild cities. Among plays to be offered are: Caprice, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Wings Over Europe, R. U. R., Strange Interlude, Marco Millions, Volpone. A rotational system among the actors will assure each circuit city of the best Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play...
...building, a small brick one, stands on Independence Square, close to Independence Hall. A label calls it the Hall of the American Philosophical Society. A large group of learned men, philosophers in the old sense of searchers after truth in any of the sciences, including natural history, heard the tread of the Giants and Hobgoblins...
...such parlous times it behooves all those in power to tread carefully. Bold words and recriminations are not to be valued when they promise to prove boomerangs. Dr. Schacht has indeed acted strangely in receiving Allied reductions so coldly, and precipitating the present impasse. He seems to be playing for high stakes, and Germany stands to lose heavily if he loses. The members of the Committee and their governments are eager to avoid the abyss which he has opened before them, but there is great question whether governments do not move so ponderously that even though the will...
Touching on somewhat the same ground as that tread by Philip Barry in "Paris Bound" the author of "Young Love" has produced a highly diverting comedy. With but four characters to interpret him, he has built a setting of very obvious contrast. Two young people engaged to be married are set off against a young married couple. And as the faith of the youngsters in the everlasting bliss and contentment of the marital state resolves itself into a gaping doubt, Mr. Raphaelson lightly expounds his thesis...
Happily, the play does not at the same time sink into the sloughs which is the grave of so many who strive to tread the tremendous and slippery path of the golden mean. Whether this is due alone to the quality of the acting which lifts the audience safely over the soft places, it is difficult to say. Enough that the fact remains that the work of the small cast of five is practically without exception excellent...