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...play is primarily a picture of an ill-natured old woman, and for many months it was held by the Theatre Guild as a vehicle for their favorite actress, Helen Westley. Margaret Wycherly plays the part in the present production with quavers and acidity admirably suited to the crone. Whitford Kane is somewhat less successful as the old taxidermist, who is a greybeard Pollyanna. There is also a girl who is deceived by a strutting young musician and a serenely suffering mother. All these combine in what might have been an excellent study of mediocre domesticity had it not been...
...obtain George Arliss or Godfrey Tearle for Caesar, the Guild chose Lionel Atwill. His magnificent presence enhanced the role's potentialities; his heavy humor and his cloudy diction deadened them. Helen Hayes, though very lovely and expert, was occasionally caught in her inexhaustible supply of cuteness. Helen Westley, veteran of many a Guild production, seemed to lack entirely the sinister severity of Ftatateeta. The best performance was contributed by Henry Travers as Britannus. The production was magnificent and the new theatre certainly the finest, the most comfortable and the most beautiful in Manhattan...
...meeting of the Debating Council last night Dwight Westley Chapman Jr. '27 of Wilmette, III., was elected president of the Council for the coming year. He was recently awarded the Coolidge Medal as the leading University debater...
...being confined to the amateur classrooms of "English 47," would have large contacts with the world of drama. They would learn not only from scholars but from experience. Miss Helbrun for astute showmanship, Mr. Moeller for dramaturgy and stage direction. Mr. Simonson for scenery. Mr. Wertheim for economics, Miss Westley for histrionism, Mr. Reicher for production and Mr. Munsell for business management. Judging from results this group, if it were to take the Harvard chicks under its frigid wing, would incubate some masters and masterpieces...
...Guild's Board of Managers, responsible for its choice of plays and general policy, consists of "a banker, a lawyer, an actress, an artist, a producer and a playwright"; that is, in the same order, Maurice Wertheim, Lawrence Langner, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson, Theresa Helburn, and Philip Moeller. Of these, Theresa Helburn, tireless and ubiquitous Executive Director and Mrs. Westley, an accomplished actress of vigorous originality, were the pair chiefly accountable for the birth and rise of the Guild. Finding the theatre "frankly commercial," the Guild has never posed as a society of pure artists...