Word: walk-on
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Cafe was a pretentious little play which had but one scene?the terrace of a Paris restaurant?45 somewhat mute walk-on characters for atmosphere and a handful of unsatisfactory mummers who took the part of futile artists, U. S. expatriates. The piece was the first from the pen of Mary a Mannes Mielziner, niece of Walter Damrosch, wife of Jo Mielziner, famed stage-setting designer. At no time did the dialog, action or story of Cafe rise above the general quality level of the littlest little theatre. Nub of the plot: Maurice Larned (Rollo Peters) fled from...