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...summer colony whose residents are people like the Owen Davises and Arthur Byrons, first families of the U. S. stage. Under oldtime Director Melville Burke, a permanent troupe of performers like Owen Davis Jr., Mary Rogers and Ben Lackland will help guest players like James Rennie, Blanche Yurka, Jean Dixon and Edith Barrett put on plays like The Wild Duck, Reno and Tovarich...
...remaining honors for her characterization of Miss Pross, the best of the pre-Wodehouse servants. No part could suit her better than that of this stiff, self-righteous, devoted maid-companion, to whom non-churchgoers are Atheists and the whole world is at the call of her ladybird. Blanche Yurka takes the part of Madame DeFarge, the fanatical wife of the wine shop keeper who heads the Jacquerie. She is in the role of an intensely emotional and overbearing personality such as she has played on the legitimate stage for many years under various guises. One of the most interesting...
...alliance was revived by onetime Dramacritic Nathan Zatkin. Most of Playwright Ibsen's magic has survived the 46 disenchanting years that have passed since it was put to paper. Tall Mary Hone, as the wife, performs creditably in a rôle last played in Manhattan by Blanche Yurka five years ago, by Eleanora Duse ten years ago.* Iolanthe. The operetta, during whose composition Sir Arthur Sullivan successively lost his father, brother, mother and fortune, still brings merriment to confirmed Savoyards. William Danforth adds one more Gilbert-&-Sullivan characterization to his long list with the part of the stately...
...tone up their daughter's wedding by the appearance of both the bride's parents. The diva arrives with a lot of theatrical riffraff, the daughter cools to her fiance, but the parents are happily reunited as the curtain falls. The diva is impersonated by Blanche Yurka, a seasoned actress who has of late years specialized in Ibsen. Greek tragedy and was one of the Narrators in Lucrece. The playwright is the author of The Cradle Song and The Kingdom of God. Astute Producer Beckhard presented last season's hilarious Goodbye Again. None of these can expect...
Stephen (Richard Hale) is leading a comfortable life with his stolid, attentive wife (Blanche Yurka ) when Karl and his bride come to visit. The bride (svelte Lora Baxter) has previously been Stephen's mistress in Paris...