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...bawdy classic, The Country Wife. Sam Jaffe played the blackmailer, Nils Krogstad; Walter Slezak was the husband and Dennis King took the part of Dr. Rank. Instead of the stilted, outmoded language which mars most Ibsen translations, the play was given in modern idiom supplied by Thornton Wilder. Producer Jed Harris (Broadway, Coquette, The Front Page, The Green Bay Tree) worked in collaboration with Producer Richard Aldrich, who is this year's festival manager...
...Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan (see p. 56) and Thornton Wilder, begins its season late in July. The Front Page and The Sea Gull will be featured. Burlington's Green Mountain Playhouse started doing business last week...
...Crusader Katterfeld started a little magazine called Evolution. He solicited and published sound, straightforward articles from reputable scientists, avoided the wilder forms of abuse but exposed and excoriated antiscientific pressure wherever he found it. In 1932 he found the struggle to keep Evolution going too difficult, decided to stop publication for a while and lay the foundations for revival by a campaign of vigorous field work. His three daughters and two sons, although sympathizing and helping, were inclined to laugh at his "pipe dream." But Katterfeld persisted...
...social work department of Phillips Brooks House last night issued a call for volunteers to work this summer in charity camps through the wilder parts of New England...
Resigned. Lee Wilder Maxwell, 55; from the board chairmanship of Crowell Publishing Co. (Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Country Home) which he had held since 1934; in Manhattan...