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Stanislavsky's devoted company made it just as resounding a success, and from then on Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre marched in step. The company produced three more Chekhov plays (Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Garden}, produced also Actress Olga Knipper, whom Chekhov married...
When Marc Connelly, under the influence of Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun, had finished The Green Pastures, he took it to Producer Jed Harris. Producer Harris was busy with Uncle Vanya (TIME, April 21, 1930). Producer Crosby Gaige also turned down the Connelly piece and the Theatre Guild would have none of it. But the play interested Rowland Stebbins, an inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving...
...village of Fadeevka, 14-year-old Pioneer Mischa Dyakov peached on his parents for grain stealing, confidently expected to be the hero of their trial. But so backward was the local Soviet court that both parents were acquitted. Last week their second son,11-year-old Vanya, peached on them not for grain stealing but for murder. "My brother Mischa didn't just disappear after my parents were acquitted. They killed him!" testified the dauntless Pioneer. Resolved to make an example of the parents, Moscow authorities swooped down on the village of Fadeevka, prepared to put through a typical Soviet...
...Boardman, respectable widower, lived in increasingly uncomfortable sin with his gold-digging mistress. Fellow-lodgers were Andre Franconi, impeccable barber, suffering in silence his earned reputation of irresistible ladies' man, slowly dying from incurable syphilis; the Otto Drollingers, pseudo-intelligentsia, who played at being Russians and called themselves Vanya & Natasha. In a nearby basement a learned, demented printer worked feverishly on his endless history, left his work sporadically to dash out around Union Square, scattering neatly printed cards of warning and doom. In the Square every day were old Mother Volga, pretzel-seller, and Mr. Feibelman, the hot chestnutman...
This selection concludes a successful year during which three plays were given. Before Cambridge audiences the players have put on George Bernard Shaw's difficult "Great Catherine," Ibsen's seldom-given "When We Dead Awaken," and the well-received "Uncle Vanya," by Chekov, which the Guild Theatre revived in New York last year...