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Despite a lack of the polish which should distinguish the professional from the amateur performance, the Stagers this week give a fairly creditable presentation of Vildrac's "S. S. Tenacity." The cast, although unadorned by any widely publicized star, is capable enough and almost shows an ability to fill their roles adequately and convincingly, if the story gave them ample opportunity...
...curtain-raiser the bill includes The Pilgrimage, a character study of small town life in France by Charles Vildrac. It was agreeable and excellently acted...
Besides these are three plays never before presented in this country: Vildrac's French play "The S. S. Tenacity"; Galsworthy's "The Forest," and "Hassan" by the Englishman Flecker...
Michel Auclair. This play, sponsored by the Provincetown group, is a pledge of lost hopes, a souvenir of misshapen direction. The author (Charles Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills...
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