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THERE IS a big difference between the fifteenth anniversary of the first publication of THE COMMONWEAL and the seventeenth anniversary of THE COMMONWEAL'S organization— a two years' difference...

The Play (March 1933)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Miracle Plays P OSSIBLY the market place, or the steps of a cathedral would enhance the singular and radiant charm of the mediaeval miracle plays which the...

The Play (June 1929)

June 19, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 189 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Revival of Becky Sharp p ERHAPS no commercial manager--not even George Tyler himself---could have produced a more...

The Play (April 1929)

722 THE COMMONWEAL April 24, 1929 THE...

The Play (April 1929)

684 THE COMMONWEAL April 17, 1929 THE...

The Play (April 1929)

656 THE COMMONWEAL April io, 1929 THE...

The Play (April 1929)

626 THE COMMONWEAL April 3, 1929 inhabitants may view on Sunday, and a picture dis- THE...

The Play (March 1929)

March 27, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 6oi your statement. Against this possible objection there are...

The Play (March 1929)

March zo, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 571 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Katerina T HE strength of many Russian writers lies in their powerful portrayal of half-truths. Leonid Andreyev, the author of...

The Play (March 1929)

544 T H E C O M M O N W E A L March I3, I9z 9 9 i THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Kibitzer I AM inclined to disagree broadly with those critics whose praise of this play centered largely on...

The Play (March 1929)

514 THE COMMONWEAL March 6, 1929 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER narlef't~ T HE exploitation of the Negro, both as an actor and as a subject for sensational dramatic writing, is progressing apace....

The Play (February 1929)

February 27, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 489 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Eugene O'Neill's Dynamo T HERE has been a lot of chatter already, and there will soon be much more, about Eugene O'Neill's...

The Play (February 1929)

9.60 THE COMMONWEAL February 20, 1929 THE...

The Play (February 1929)

430 THE COMMONWEAL February 13, 1929 film, a railway train, an automobile, and a huge clock...

The Play (February 1929)

February 6, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 405 THE...

The Play (January 1929)

376 THE COMMONWEAL January 30, 1929 THE...

The Play (January 1929)

348 THE COMMONWEAL January 23, 1929 DIFFERING...

The Play (January 1929)

318 THE COMMONWEAL January 16, 1929 THE...

The Play (January 1929)

290 THE COMMONWEAL January 9, 1929 when they "put Dave up in churchyard," so hurriedly, on...

The Play (January 1929)

264 THE COMMONWEAL January 2, 1929 further, since trickery is supposed to be one of our...

The Play (December 1928)

December 26, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 235 THE...

The Play (December 1928)

208 THE COMMONWEAL December ig, 1928 THE...

The Play (December 1928)

December I2, I928 THE COMMONWEAL x69 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The ICild Duck M ANY people consider The Wild Duck Ibsen's masterpiece. Certainly in its revival of three seasons ago it blazed...

The Play (December 1928)

132 THE COMMONWEAL December 5, 1928 THE...

The Play (November 1928)

November 28, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 103 THE...

The Play (November 1928)

November 21, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 75 THE...

The Play (November 1928)

46 THE COMMONWEAL November 14, 1928 THE...

The Play (November 1928)

20 THE COMMONWEAL November 7, 1928 THE...

The Play (October 1928)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Light of Asia IT IS literalism, I think, which robs the rather thin dramatic text of Georgina Jones Walton's play of any real illusion in Walter Hampden's...

The Play (October 1928)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Faust GOETHE'S philosophical dramatic poem of Faust, as presented by the Theatre Guild, becomes a boring hodgepodge, illuminated here and there by fine scenic...

The Play (October 1928)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER When Crummies Played /^HARLES L. WAGNER is presenting a company of V> English players at the Garrick Theatre this year—an event which ought to bring joy to the...

The Play (October 1928)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Elmer the Great GEORGE M. COHAN has not yet abandoned the American flag! That is the moral we must deduce from the program statement that Mr. Cohan presents the...

The Play (October 1928)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Machinal THIS play sets out to do what some dozen others have attempted—namely, to express through the medium of short episodes the mood and temper of modern...

The Play (September 1928)

492 THE COMMONWEAL September 19, 1928 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Gentlemen of the Press THE obvious thing to do is to avoid comparisons between Gentlemen of the Press and that other...

The Play (September 1928)

September 5, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 437 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Goin' Home RANSOM RIDEOUT has written, in Goin' Home, a war play of unusual theme, and written it for the most part with...

The Play (August 1928)

August 29, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 413 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Front Page /CONSIDERED solely as a piece of swift, rhythmic and ^-> pulsating staging, Jed Harris's production of The...

The Play (August 1928)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Elmer Gantry PATRICK KEARNEY'S dramatic version of Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry is something more than just another revivalist play (referring to Bless You,...

The Play and the Screen (August 1928)

August 8, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL THE PLAY AND THE SCREEN By R. DANA SKINNER The Intruder THE first reasonably interesting play of the faintly dawning new season is by Paul Eldridge. It is...

Plays by Radio (July 1928)

312 THE COMMONWEAL July 25, 1928 PLAYS BY RADIO By R. DANA SKINNER THE latest of all forms of radio amusement, namely the effort to give radio plays, is an integral part of the great world...

The Play (July 1928)

272 THE COMMONWEAL July 11, 1928 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Grand Street Impersonations THE Grand Street Follies, which opened a new season recently—this time in upper New York—have as...

The Play (July 1928)

252 THE COMMONWEAL July 4, 1928 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Beaux' Stratagem GEORGE FARQUHAR wrote in the first decade of the eighteenth century. No matter what bigwigs...

The Play (June 1928)

June 27, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 217 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Diplomacy NOT long ago, a gentleman of some literary achievement privately vented his spleen against the theatre somewhat as...

The Challenge of the Theatre, III (June 1928)

i86 THE COMMONWEAL June 20, 1928 THE CHALLENGE OF THE THEATRE: III By R. DANA SKINNER (This is the last of. three articles written for The Commonweal on a practical program for a new...

The Challenge of the Theatre, II (June 1928)

i6o THE COMMONWEAL June 13, 1928 THE CHALLENGE OF THE THEATRE: II By R. DANA SKINNER (This is the second of three articles written by Mr. Skinner for The Commonweal on a practical program...

The Challenge of the Theatre, I (June 1928)

130 THE COMMONWEAL June 6, 1928 THE CHALLENGE OF THE THEATRE: I By R. DANA SKINNER (This is the first of three articles on a practical program for a new theatrical producing group which...

The Play (May 1928)

May 30, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 103 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER She Stoops to Conquer THE business of so-called "all-star" revivals, as conducted by George Tyler, has its amusing elements....

The Play (May 1928)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Happy Husband ABOUT this time of the year, managers begin to scratch their heads to find light summer entertainment. This resolves itself generally into...

The Play (May 1928)

May 16, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 47 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Orchestral Drama WHAT was once the sequestered Neighborhood Playhouse —or, at least, that part of it which did not become...

The Play and the Screen (May 1928)

2O THE COMMONWEAL May 9, 1928 THE PLAY AND THE SCREEN By R. DANA SKINNER Behold—the Speaking Movie! FOR many months we have seen and heard reproductions on the Vitaphone, the...

From and about Miss Le Gallienne (April 1928)

POSSIBLY you recall that delectable series of cartoons headed, "Wonder what so-and-so thinks?" The "so-and-so" might be anything from a stuffed fish in a glass frame to the imperturbable doorman...

The Play (April 1928)

March Hares SOMEWHERE between the Mad Hatter and the March Hare you will find whatever underlying satiric philosopsy there is in Harry Wagstaff Gribble's play. The author calls it a fantastic...

The Play (April 1928)

Our Betters UNFORTUNATELY I cannot share the very general enthusiasm about the play which Somerset Maugham wrote some years ago and which has recently been quite brilliantly revived at the Henry...

The Play (April 1928)

Henry the Fifth T F T H E customary author's royalties were paid on every ••• Shakespeare production in New York this winter, and the resulting fund devoted to the Stratford Memorial, that...

The Play (March 1928)

Twelve Thousand WE HAVE to thank the Garrick Players, alias Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis, for at least two acts of as beautiful and enthralling staging and direction of a costume play as we have...

The Play (March 1928)

Rope THE South has come in for a heavy share in the current dramatic season. But this time it is lynching and revivalism rather than the problems of the Negro which hold the centre of the stage....

The Play (March 1928)

Maya MAYA, by Simon Gantillon, has achieved a definite importance in the theatre world here and abroad. It is a bold play in its theme, sincere in its intention and treatment, but hardly...

The Play (February 1928)

Strange Interlude TWO years ago Eugene O'Neill startled us somewhat by reverting to the use of masks in his play The Great God Brown. Of course he did not go back to any known tradition in the...

The Play (February 1928)

Salvation THE theatre is a perpetual mystery and adventure, not only for constant playgoers, but for managers and authors as well. Here we have, for example, one of the first actresses of the...

The Play (February 1928)

The Patriot ONE of the most ambitious and, in certain respects, one of the finest productions of the season seems destined, according to newspaper reports of attendance, to be one of the most...

The Play (February 1928)

The First Stone THE latest presentation of the Civic Repertory Theatre is The First Stone, the work of a new American playwright named Walter Ferris, the play being based upon a story by Mary...

The Play (January 1928)

Marco Millions IN THE writing of Marco Millions something seems to have happened to Eugene O'Neill which foreshadows the title of his subsequent play—The Strange Interlude. Marco Millions itself...

The Play (January 1928)

Behold, the Bridegroom— NEW plays by George Kelly are approximately annual events. The last three years have given us The ShowOff, Craig's Wife and Daisy Mayme. Now comes Behold,...

The Play (January 1928)

The Death of Danton THE third production of Max Reinhardt's New York season is The Death of Danton as written by George Biichner—a play which has been one of the standard tragedies in Germany...

The Play (December 1927)

Nigihtstick MOST of the plays on Broadway today are the products of several minds and several typewriters, though the name of only one playwright may appear on the program. Even many well-known...

The Play (December 1927)

Out of the Sea IT IS more than curious—it is amazing—that a combination of men so experienced in the theatre as Don Marquis, author, George Tyler, producer, Walter Hampden, director, and RoUo...

The Play (December 1927)

The Doctor's Dilemma THIS satirical tragedy is a pretty fair cross-section of the worst and the best in Bernard Shaw as a playwright. It has some moments of sheer lyric poetry; a touch of...

The Play (November 1927)

Coquette GEORGE ABBOTT and Ann Preston Bridgers have fashioned two acts of a memorably poignant and sensitive play from material originally suggested by Miss Bridgers, and have vv^andered into...

The Play (November 1927)

Take My Advice IN THIS comedy by Elliott Lester, Ralph Morgan manages to difEiise considerable charm over a story whose chief merit is its entire lack of the unpleasant material so common to the...

The Play (November 1927)

The Good Hope WHEN the news spread abroad that Eva Le Gallienne would continue the experiment she began last year, of repertory production on Fourteenth Street, there was considerable rejoicing...

The Play (November 1927)

'If THE Neighborhood Playhouse company, alias the Grand Street Follies Company, alias the Actor Managers—the third name being the present working version—have selected Lord Dunsany's comedy,...

The Play (November 1927)

Porgy THE Theatre Guild opened its fall season with a complete departure from all of its traditions. No members of the now famous "acting company" could be espied on the stage. Nor was the...

The Play (October 1927)

Chauve-Souris ONCE more the Russians are with us. But Nikita Balieff has either allowed or persuaded his famous troupe of entertainers to become more cosmopolitan than in the early days. A few...

The Play (October 1927)

The Trial of Mary Dugan THE author of Within the Law and The Thirteenth Chair, Mr, Bayard Veiller, has demonstrated once more his splendid sense of the theatre in The Trial of Mary Dugan. This...

The Play (October 1927)

The Mikado FOR the first time since Winthrop Ames has devoted his loving care to the production of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, we have a really good chance to compare the magic of his touch...

The Play (October 1927)

Revelry THE young author of the biting Chicago was selected to dramatize Revelry, the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams which, the American public has insisted, is the transcript of events during a...

The Play (September 1927)

The Baby Cyclone THIS time the villain in the piece is a Pekinese dog. It is quite impossible to tell whether the author of the farce now playing at the Henry Miller—none other than George M....

The Play (September 1927)

Pickwick THOSE immortal adventurers of England, the Pickwickians, came, if not to life, at least into a loving visibility at the Empire Theatre last week in an elaborate and fond production by...

The Play (September 1927)

Her First Affaire WHEN Mr. Gustav Blum first announced that he would produce a play by Merrill Rogers, those who knew of Mr. Rogers chiefly as a writer of considerable distinction in prose were...

The Summer Theatre (August 1927)

A La Carte THE critics of some of the daily papers must have been seized with an attack of midsummer cynicism when they reviewed Rosalie Stewart's A La Carte. Perhaps they felt that the...

The Play (August 1927)

Allez-Oop NOTHING is quite so sad as an intimate review that ought to be better. Last year, you may recall, Richard Herndon's Americana was, with the exception of one or two doubtful scenes, one...

The Season's Players (July 1927)

{This is the last of a series of three general review articles by Mr. Skinner on the ig26-27 theatrical season.—The Editors) THE New York stage, oddly enough, is suffering from a plethora of...

Plays and Playwrights (July 1927)

{This is the second of three general review articles by Mr. Skinner on the 1926-27 theatre season.—The Editors.) ANOTHER American playwright who has leaped into . prominence due to the rousing...

Plays and Playwrights (July 1927)

(This is the first of three general review articles by Mr. Skinner on the ig26-27 season in the theatre.—The Editors.) ABOUT the time that the leading newspaper critics insist . on a vacation,...

The Play and Screen (July 1927)

The Circus Princess THE gorgeous improvidence of the Shuberts when they stage a musical attraction often plays havoc with the lighter values which the piece might have. In the case of The...

The Play (June 1927)

The Players Give Julius Caesar IT IS one of the curiosities, of America that cities other than New York have probably seen Shakespeare's Julius Caesar far more frequently than the supposed...

The Play and the Screen (June 1927)

Merry-Go-Round RICHARD HERNDON was the first of the Broadway producers to catch the new spirit in musical reviews as promoted by the English Chariot's Review, and by the Garrick Gaieties and the...

The Play (June 1927)

Ruddigore WHAT is a poor manager to do who would revive a Gilbert and Sullivan opera in the same city where Winthrop Ames has re-created lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance? The sheer...

The Play (June 1927)

Triple Crossed SOMEHOW it seems as if anyone named Merlin ought to write a good mystery play. In fact there is no good reason why an utterly thrilling mystery should not be written around the...

The Play and the Screen (May 1927)

The Pulitzer Prize Play SEVERAL months ago, it was my good fortune to read a small volume of one-act plays, gathered together imder the title of Lonesome Road. As theatrical openings were...

The Play (May 1927)

Margaret Anglin in Electra THERE were moments during Margaret Anglin's performance of Electra in the Metropolitan Opera House recently when the veil seemed to be lifted before the shrine...

The Play (May 1927)

Right You Are if You Think You Are ALMOST any way you look at it, this play by Pirandello violates all the canons of Broadway success. It speculates throughout three acts on the abstract nature...

When Hollywood Turns Holy Land (May 1927)

OPINION will probably be sharply divided on the attempt of Cecil B. DeMille to put on the screen those episodes in the life of Christ which heretofore have been presented only by such...

Copeland: The Man and His Book (May 1927)

714 COPELAND: THE MAN AND HIS BOOK By R. DANA SKINNER SOME books grow their own titles. The Copeland Reader* is such a book. For although you will find between its covers the writings of...

The Play (May 1927)

720 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Love Is Like That SWIFT on the heels of The Second Man comes S. N. Behrman's second produced play, this time, however, the result of a collaboration with...

The Play (April 1927)

664 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Spread Eagle YOU might say that George S. Brooks and Walter B. Lister, the authors of Spread Eagle, had tried, judiciously, to clip the outer feathers of the...

Miss Anglin Says, "Up to You" (April 1927)

629 MISS ANGLIN SAYS, "UP TO YOU" By R. DANA SKINNER IN CONFERRING the Laetare Medal upon Margaret Anglin, Notre Dame University has done more than honor the recipient personally. The...

The Play (April 1927)

636 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Mariners CLEMENCE DANE, who wrote A Bill of Divorcement, and Granite, is the author of this second production of the Actor's Theatre under the management of...

The Play (April 1927)

608 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Her Cardboard Lover JEANNE EAGELS is, of course, the chief interest in Her Cardboard Lover, not because she does the best acting in the play, but because she...

The Play (March 1927)

58~-THE COMMONWEAL March 30, I927 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Miss Le Galliennds Season B Y THIS time, it is pretty common "knowledge that one thing of outstanding importance has happened...

The Play and Screen (March 1927)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By R. DANA SKINNER Earth SWIFT upon the reverberations of Lawson's Loud Speaker comes Earth, by Em Jo Basshe. It is the second in the repertory group to be presented by the...

Our Philippines and China (March 1927)

520 OUR PHILIPPINES AND CHINA By R. DANA SKINNER "OUR Philippine policy is not a domestic, but an international issue. Its affects all of eastern Asia as well as ourselves and the Filipinos."...

The Play (March 1927)

24 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Money From Home EVERY so often, Frank Craven pops up on Broadway with one of those plays from spotless town. Plays of this kind, inless they are extremely good,...

The Play (March 1927)

496 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Granite HERE is one of the clearest examples of an unsatisfactory play so handled and modulated by an expert director as to become an exceedingly interesting...

The Play (March 1927)

468 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Chicago SINCE Chicago, by Maurine Watkins, labels itself "a satirical comedy," and has, as the target of its satire, the screaming tabloids, it cannot be...

The Play (February 1927)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Road to Rome ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD has entered the lists of those who joust for an idea under the armor of antiquity. The Road to Rome, which is supposed to be...

The Play (February 1927)

412 THE COMMONWEAL February I6, 1927 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Trelawny of the Wells I T IS a rather curious comment on the vagaries of this theatrical season that, at its height, a...

The Play (February 1927)

382 THE COMMONWEAL February 9, x927 THE PLAY By R. DANA Saturday's Children AXWELL ANDERSON is the author of the first play presented by the re-reorganized Actors' Theatre...

The Play (February 1927)

356 THE COMMONWEAL February2, I927 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Sam Abramovitch H ERE is a play, presented by Anne Nichols, which fared rather badly at the hands of the critics; which, in...

The Play (January 1927)

328 THE COMMONWEAL January 26, 1927 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Mrs. Fiske in Ghosts O NCE upon a time, when Mr. Ibsen was absorbed in mat- ters of physical heredity and had an...

The Play (January 1927)

January x2, x927 THE COMMONWEAL 971 THE By R. DANA The Guitrys in Mozart T HE name of Guitry is one with which to conjure in Paris. There was a time when Sacha Guitry was known only as the...

The Play (January 1927)

243 TH E PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Silver Cord THE great play on the wrong kind of motherhood still remains to be written. Not that Sidney Howard has failed to do well by this serious...

The Play (December 1926)

216 THE COMMONWEAL December 29, I926 ii i THE PLAY By 1L DANA La Locandiera G I~AMOUR still hangs over the doings of the Civic Reper- tory Theatre down on Fourteenth Street....

The Play (December 1926)

I88 T H E C O M M O N W E A L December 2~, 1926 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Mine. Sorel in Camille C ECILE SOREL is one of the institutions of the Paris stage and a particular luminary...

The Play (December 1926)

THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Ned McCobb's Daughter ANEW play by Sidney Howard has become one of those events for which confirmed theatre-goers offer thanks. Although he has not yet projected...

The Play (December 1926)

134 THE COMMONWEAL December 8, 1926 THE By R. DANA Up the Line p RIZE plays suffer the initial handicap of increasing the critical mood of an audience. When associated with the drama...

The Play (December 1926)

Io6 THE COMMONWEAL December I, 1926 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Pygmalion ND so, the season being well advanced, the Theatre Guild again bursts forth with an attack of Shaw. This is an...

The Play (November 1926)

November 24, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 79 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Saturday Night HP HE courageous adventure of Miss Eva Le Gallienne in A establishing at the old Fourteenth Street Theatre a...

The Play (November 1926)

50 THE COMMONWEAL November 17, 1926 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Daisy Mayme ANEW George Kelly play has become one of the season's standard events—surely not because of Craig's Wife alone,...

The Play (November 1926)

16 THE COMMONWEAL November 10, 1926 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Caponsacchi WALTER HAMPDEN has given New York audiences in Caponsacchi everything which he failed to provide in The...

The Play (October 1926)

614 THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1926 THE...

The Play (October 1926)

October 13, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 557 THE...

The Play (October 1926)

528 THE COMMONWEAL October 6, 1926 THE...

The Play (September 1926)

September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 495 THE...

The Play (September 1926)

474 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1926 THE...

The Play (September 1926)

448 THE C O M NI O N W E A L September i S, 1926 THE...

The Play (September 1926)

September 8, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 427 THE...

The Play (September 1926)

September 1, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 407 THE...

The Play (August 1926)

August 25, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 387 THE...

The Play (August 1926)

August i 1, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 349 THE...

The Play (July 1926)

308 THE COMMONWEAL July 28, 1926 THE...

The Play and the Screen (July 1926)

288 THE COMMONWEAL July 21, 1926 THE PLAY AND THE...

The Play (July 1926)

July 14, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 269 THE...

The Play (July 1926)

July 7, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 247 THE...

The Play (June 1926)

216 THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1926 THE...

The Play (June 1926)

June 23, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 189 THE...

The Play (June 1926)

June t6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 161 THE...

The Play (June 1926)

June 9, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 133 THE...

The Play (June 1926)

104 THE COMMONWEAL June 2, 1926 THE...

The Play (May 1926)

May 26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 77 THE...

The Play (May 1926)

May 19, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 49 THE...

The Play (May 1926)

May 12, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 21 POEM S 2'o...

Books (May 1926)

BOOKS Personalities and Reminiscences of the War, by Robert Lee Bullard. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. $5.00. Fix Bayonets! by John W. Thomason, Jr. New York: Charles Scribners...

The Play (April 1926)

April 28, I926 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 693 = ,, ! O T H E P LAY pr~ea for the work ot; Mr. Kenneth MacKenna, it is only fair and just to record that his John Shand is an...

The Play (March 1926)

March 31, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 581 THE PLAY Easter A SAD thing happened last week. The Stagers—a persistent and loyal producing group—presented New York with an honest and moving...

A New Language (March 1926)

A NEW LANGUAGE By R. DANA SKINNER T F YOU want to know what all the talk about new ** art in the modern theatre means, don't drop in casually at the International Theatre Exposition now being...

The Play (March 1926)

526 THE COMMONWEAL March 17, 1926 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Masque of Venice PLAYS that fail can be quite as interesting as plays that succeed, if you want to take the trouble to...

The Play (March 1926)

March 10, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 497 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Wisdom Tooth SINCE the advent of O'NeuTs Great God Brown, the fashion threatens to prevail among Broadway writers...

The Play (February 1926)

February 24, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 441 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Great Gatsby ' I * HOSE who have read Scott Fitzgerald's novel with this A same name seem to be in cordial agreement...

The Play (February 1926)

384 THE COMMONWEAL February 10, 1926 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Great God Brown THREE things emerge clearly from the puzzle of Eugene O'Neill's latest play, The Great God Brown. In...

Poems (January 1926)

266 THE COMMONWEAL January 13, 1926 POEMS Words With Wings Words! How they glitter! With what sweet Accord they make all beauty known, Leaving old friendships more complete, Leading us...

The Play (December 1925)

i6o THE COMMONWEAL December 16, 1925 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Enemy AFTER seeing this vastly press-agented play, to which its author, Channing Pollock, has apparently persuaded...

The Play and Screen (December 1925)

December 9, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 133 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By R. DANA SKINNER Shaw's Androcles IT IS almost pathetic to see Bernard Shaw dissect himself in public. He is so unconscious of what...

The Play and the Screen (December 1925)

104 THE COMMONWEAL December 2, 1925 THE PLAY AND THE SCREEN By R. DANA SKINNER The New Chariot Review THEY are back again—meaning, of course, that quartette of English artists who last year...

The Play (November 1925)

November 25, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 79 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Modern Clothes Hamlet AFTER seeing this highly interesting and partly successful production which Mr. Liveright has...

The Play (November 1925)

November 18, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Young Woodley JOHN VAN DRUTEN, the author of this play, is a young English schoolmaster, who writes with a great deal of...

The Play (November 1925)

22 THE COMMONWEAL November n, 1925 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Lucky Sam McCarver SIDNEY HOWARD, the author of They Knew What They Wanted, is undoubtedly one of our most important and...

The Play (November 1925)

650 THE COMMONWEAL November 4, I925 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Glass 8lipper F ~ERENC MOLNAR has done an extraordinary thing. He has created one character of amazing beauty and...

The Play (October 1925)

October 28, I925 THE COMMONWEAL 623 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER zt Triumphant Hamlet S MALL wonder that Walter Hampden can make the song of Cyrano penetrate to the innermost castles of...

Those Rich, Far Places (October 1925)

618 T H E C O M M O N W E A L October 28, I925 emasculate group of repellant egoists, who talk in phrases which are presumably epigrams, but which as a rule are deadly inanities. The better the...

The Play (October 1925)

COMMONWEAL THE 594 THE By R. DANA SKINNER C HEAP themselves, epigrams make and up a a tongue play--not in the even cheek the do lightest not, by of lawyer...

The Play (October 1925)

566 THE COMMONWEAL October 14, 1925 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Bridge of Distances ANEW producer has entered the lists of those who would joust for the international mind in the...

The Play (October 1925)

October 7, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 537 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Vortex THIS play with which the much discussed Noel Coward has flashed into the American scene, exhibits a...

The Play (September 1925)

508 THE COMMONWEAL September 30, 1925 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Green Hat KATHARINE CORNELL has returned to New York at last, bringing Michael Arlen's The Green Hat with her. Of...

The Play (September 1925)

September 23, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 483 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER Outside Looking In THIS play by Maxwell Anderson, one of the authors of What Price Glory?, is easily the most...

The Play (September 1925)

September 16, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 455 THE PLAY By R. DANA SKINNER The Fall of Eve HP HE trouble all began when Eve Hutton took unto her•*¦ self, as a confidential friend and adviser,...

The Play (September 1925)

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