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Debts and Recovery1 By RICHARD DANA SKINNER AT LONG last, the problem of debt in the capitalistic structure is beginning to receive adequate investigation. It is being "discovered."...

Owners in Bondage (May 1937)

May 14, 1937 The Commonweal OWNERS IN BONDAGE By RICHARD DANA SKINNER INVISIBLE tides! They have been rising for several hundred years. We feel them, but we do not see them. They are...

Revolution by Chemistry (January 1937)

REVOLUTION BY CHEMISTRY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER THE CHEMISTS have it largely in their power to determine the future political and economic history of the United States. This is neither a figure of...

An Old Grad Writes In (November 1936)

AN OLD GRAD WRITES IN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER MY DEAR President Smith: Before I send you my small contribution to your Unfettered Fund for a Greater College, I want to have a heart-to-heart talk...

Books (October 1935)

Books The Problem of Japan Toward Understanding Japan, by Sydney L. Gulick. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.00. DR. GULICK is well known in China and Japan as one who continuously...

Debts vs. Private Ownership (July 1935)

DEBTS vs. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP ! By RICHARD DANA SKINNER IN LAST week's article, I attempted to analyze a basic contradiction in our modern capitalist system which ...

Debts vs. Private Ownership (July 1935)

July 19, 1935 The Commonweal 297 DEBTS vs. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP By RICHARD DANA SKINNER THERE is a clear need to face the social implications involved in the existence of long -...

Who Pays Taxes? (June 1935)

June 14, 1935 The Commonweal 173 WHO PAYS TAXES? By RICHARD DANA SKINNER ABOUT a third of the cost of every package of cigarettes is tax money. In the present low estate of real...

Ourselves and the Actor (March 1935)

March 8, I935 T]~e Co~~/~o~w~al 535 . . . . . - , , . . ~ , , ~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . OURSELVES AND THE ACTOR By RICHARD DANA SKINNER T HERE is a row of...

Regulating Competition (January 1935)

3~o The Commonweal January I I, I935 This attitude would be effective not only for the long pull, but for courageous grappling with the present situation. If it be contended that the...

The Theatre-Ten Years (November 1934)

November 2, I934 Tl e Commonweal I9 THE THEATRE--TEN YEARS By RICHARD DANA SKINNER T HE THEATRE has changed less in ten years than most of our institutions. It is still held within tight bonds...

The Play (September 1934)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Judgment Day FOR SEVERAL years now, Elmer Rice has been one of our most important playwrights. At the time his "Street Scene" appeared, there was even reason to...

The Play and Screen (September 1934)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Romance of a People THE RECEIVERS of the old Roxy Theatre have introduced a daring novelty in stage entertainment by importing a reduced edition of...

Books (August 1934)

BOOKS Art and Barricades Land of Plenty, by Robert Cantwell. New York: Farrar and Rinehart. $2.50. ROBERT CANTWELL has been hailed as a proletarian novelist. So has Albert Halper, but the...

The Screen (August 1934)

THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Handy Andy WILL ROGERS'S latest picture of homely common sense happens to give a surprisingly apt illustration of what the reviewers for the Legion of Decency...

Movies and Morals (July 1934)

MOVIES AND MORALS By RICHARD DANA SKINNER THE MOVEMENT known as the Legion for Decency comes with all the more impact because of the great patience shown by the Church authorities in the past, and...

The Screen (July 1934)

BOOKS The Munitions Men Iron, Blood and Profits, by George Seldes. New York: Harper and Brothers. $2.50. ONE OF the most encouraging signs of the accelerated pace of the peace movement in the...

The Theatre and the Parish (July 1934)

THE THEATRE AND THE PARISH By RICHARD DANA SKINNER THE END of the school year is none too early to begin planning for activities in the fall. A vast amount can and should be done by those...

The Screen (June 1934)

THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Men in White "A/TEN IN WHITE" has fared exceptionally well 1VÂ± as a Broadway play-so well, in fact, that in its capacity as the year's Pultizer Prize play it...

The Screen (June 1934)

THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Little Man, What Now? I HAVE a deeply rooted suspicion that Hollywood may be surprised at the public reception given to the screen version of Hans Fallada's...

The Play (June 1934)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Come What May AT THE risk of misleading those who are always bored by the quiet doings of unimportant people, I am quite prepared to indulge in mild enthusiasm...

The Play and Screen (May 1934)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Jig Saw "TIG SAW" presents a real puzzle-not by the nature of the play itself, which is trite and obvious enough, but thanks to the unusual critical...

The Screen (May 1934)

THE SCREEN AND CONCERT By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Tarzan, Tomfoolery and Magic I AM VERY much afraid that some of the remarks I should like to make on the new Tarzan film will give some of the...

The Play and Screen (April 1934)

72O THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Gilbert and Sullivan AS AN infallible sign of spring, Broadway is again relishing the delights of Gilbert and Sullivan. The purveyors of this...

The Play (April 1934)

692 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Moor Born NEWSPAPER critical opinion seems to have been sharply divided on the subject of Dan Totheroh's play on the Bronte sisters. Under the...

The Play (April 1934)

637 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Wind and the Rain THE WIND AND THE RAIN," by Merton Hodge, is a delicately written and sensitively acted play of medical student life in Edinburgh....

The House of Rothschild-New Faces (March 1934)

609 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The House of Rothschild GEORGE ARLISS has once more undertaken to recreate a page of history, and, in spite of the rather too obvious...

The Play (March 1934)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER They Shall Not Die THE THEATRE GUILD continues its season energetically with the production of John Wexley's "They Shall Not Die." Mr. Wexley is the author...

The Play (March 1934)

525 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Four Saints in Three Acts DEEPLY imbedded in the cryptograms of Gertrude Stein's alleged prose "cadences," there is a consistent pattern binding...

The Play (March 1934)

498 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Richard of Bordeaux WILLIAM MOLLISON is responsible for bringing to Broadway another of those historical plays for which "Mary of Scotland" seems to...

The Play (February 1934)

469 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Can Religious Plays Succeedf THERE is a great need at this particular moment in the history of our theatre to turn aside from the immediate run of...

The Play (February 1934)

441 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Ziegfeld-Shubert Follies TOO MUCH, perhaps, has been said of the Shubert influence on the memorial edition of the "Ziegfeld Follies." The emphasis...

The Play (February 1934)

413 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Joyous Season THERE is very little dramatic conflict in Philip Barry's latest play, "The Joyous Season"—which accounts, perhaps, for the failure of...

The Play (February 1934)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER False Dreams, Farewell HUGH STANGE has attempted in a play of curiously mixed values to repeat the technical experiment of "Grand Hotel" by changing the...

The Play (January 1934)

357 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Critics and "Days without End" LAST week I had the rare privilege of writing about Eugene O'Neill's "Days without End"—a play the like of which...

The Play (January 1934)

327 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Days without End EUGENE O'NEILL has at last written the play which, in its spiritual content, some of us dared to hope would emerge from the deep conflicts...

The Play (January 1934)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Lake THERE is the merest touch of the mood of Ibsen's "Wild Duck" to the play by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald which serves as the...

The Play (January 1934)

273 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Jezebel OWEN DAVIS is the author of this story of a headstrong young girl of the "deep" South in the decade before the Civil War. He is, to say the very...

The Play and Screen (December 1933)

246 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Ten Minute Alibi I HAVE always enjoyed a mystery play that turned out not to be a mystery play at all. "Ten Minute Alibi" is not a great or...

The Screen (December 1933)

December 22, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 217 THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Little Women I HOPE a very good friend of mine will not object to my quoting him to the effect that he enjoyed "Little...

The Play (December 1933)

December 15, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 189 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Mary of Scotland IT IS a richly human though intensely regal Mary Stuart that Maxwell Anderson has placed before us in his...

The Play (December 1933)

160 THE COMMONWEAL December 8, 1933 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Growing Pains I T IS an innocent enough little comedy that came blurting its adolescent way into New York last week rejoicing...

The Play (December 1933)

December 1, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 133 AID OUR LEPERS New York, N. Y. T O the Editor: Each year at this time the holy missionary priests and nuns in charge of the Catholic Leper Colonies stretch out...

The Screen and Stage (November 1933)

November 24, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 103 tion of some superb existence which may be distant in time or space. A present situation may be agonizing enough to lead one to despair—when a sudden suspension...

The Play (November 1933)

November 17, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 75 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The World Waits THE QUALITY of melodrama is, perhaps, a little chilled in this play of a south polar exploring party, but...

The Play (November 1933)

November 1o, 1 933 THE COMMONWEAL 47 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Let 'Em Eat Cake THE CRITICAL reaction to "Let 'Em Eat Cake," the sequel to that hilarious "Of Thee I Sing," has been...

The Play (November 1933)

November 3, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The School for Husbands S OMETHING tells me that the Theatre Guild was quite pleased with its ingenuity and its playfulness in...

The Play (October 1933)

620 THE COMMONWEAL October a7, '933 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER .4h, It"ildernessl E UGENE O'NEILL is probably the most highly sensitized poet writing in the English language today....

The Play (October 1933)

October 20, I933 THE COMMONWEAL 59I I intended it to be but a brief visit, but was rewarded by the most delightful program of liturgical music I have yet heard in this country. I am so amazed and...

The Play (October 1933)

October I3, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 563 Washington, D. C. T O the Editor: Noticing the communication of W. L. Scott in TI-IE COMMONWEAL of September 15, I beg to call attention to the remaillng...

The Play and Screen (October 1933)

532 THE COMMONWEAL October 6, 1933 THE PLAY AND SCREEN at Eight."...

The Stage and Screen (September 1933)

September 29, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 509 THE STAGE AND SCREEN Karen Morley,...

The Screen (August 1933)

388 THE COMMONWEAL August i8, '933 THE SCREEN ...

The Stage and Screen (August 1933)

370 THE COMMONWEAL August i 1, 1933 THE STAGE AND SCREEN essentials...

The Screen (August 1933)

August 4, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 349 THE...

Social Justice-A Program (July 1933)

320 THE COMMONWEAL July 28, 1933 SOCIAL JUSTICE A...

The Stage and Screen (July 1933)

July 2I, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 309 THE STAGE AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER John Ferguson T HE CURRENT revival of St. John Ervine's famous play, John Ferguson, holds a double interest. First...

The Screen and Stage (July 1933)

290 THE COMMONWEAL July 14, 1933 "Burning Books and Bridges" THE SCREEN AND...

The Screen (July 1933)

NY 7, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 269 The Valois were cruel, only in a more civilized way THE...

The Play and Screen (June 1933)

June 30, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 24 THE PLAY AND SCREEN B....

The Screen and Stage (June 1933)

214 THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1933 THE SCREEN AND STAGE plays the...

The Screen (June 1933)

1 0 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1933 THE SCREEN even...

The Play (June 1933)

16o THE COMMONWEAL June 9, 1933 THE PLAY ...

The Screen (June 1933)

June 2, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL I33 THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Peg O' My Heart T HE SCREEN is slowly finding itself in the matter of adapting stage plays. That is, the screen is...

The Play and Screen (May 1933)

May 26, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL lO 7 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Mask and the Face L UIGI CHIARELLI, the author of the Theatre Guild's latest presentation, is not Lulgl...

The Play (May 1933)

May 19 , 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 73 Schmid's mosaics, not only the patterning of the tesserae becomes more integrated in the arrangement, but the variation in planes of the surface invites a play...

Books (May 1933)

THE COMMONWEAL May 12, 1933 Stephen had loved Nina, that she was, in fact, his...

The Play (May 1933)

May 12, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 49 Which I paraphrase as follows : Let no student...

The Screen (May 1933)

20 THE COMMONWEAL May 5, 1933 THE SCREEN he comes back...

The Play (April 1933)

April 26, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 719 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER For Services Rendered QOMERSET MAUGHAM, whose capacity for under*J standing seems at times to be limited to neurotics,...

The Play (April 1933)

April 19, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 693 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Cherry Orchard QUMMONING all possible courage, I must admit, guiltily, & that until a few days ago, I had never seen...

The Play (April 1933)

April 12, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 665 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Run, Little Chillun! HALL JOHNSON, head of the famous Hall Johnson Choir, has written a Negro folk drama which, in...

The Play (March 1933)

6io THE COMMONWEAL March 29, 1933 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER One Sunday Afternoon THIS play by James Hagan is one of those uncommon de- lights, a simple narrative play about...

The Play (March 1933)

582 THE COMMONWEAL March 22, 1933 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Both Your Houses IT MAY prove to be a fortunate coincidence that Maxwell Anderson's whip-lashing of Congress, otherwise...

The Play (March 1933)

March 15, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 553 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Alien Corn OIDNEY HOWARD ranks easily among the three first ^J playwrights of America. Eugene O'Neill probably...

The Play (March 1933)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER American Dream IN THESE three plays which go to make up George O'Neil's trilogy of American life, and incidentally the third Theatre Guild offering of the...

The Play and Screen (February 1933)

February 22, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 469 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Rasputin and the Empress I STILL insist, with due obstinacy, that the screen has become preeminently the...

The Play (February 1933)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Design for Living THE MOST curious quality in Noel Coward's latest play, "Design for Living," and the quality which should be the most obvious is the one that...

The Play (February 1933)

February 8, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 4" THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER We, the People IN CONTRAST to "Street Scene," which was universal, Elmer Rice's latest play, "We, the People," is of a...

The Play (February 1933)

February i, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 38s THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Pigeons and People FEW PEOPLE probably thought that the day would come when they would be compelled to compare George...

The Screen (January 1933)

January 25, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 357 THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Cavalcade HOLLYWOOD has violated many of its worst traditions in producing Noel Coward's "Cavalcade," and the...

The Play (January 1933)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Twentieth Century THE GREASE paint and cardboard, the tinsel and spotlights, the sham and shoddiness and shimmer of the theatre all merge uproariously in...

The Play (January 1933)

January n, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 301 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Lucrece BOTH art and artifice can be made to serve unhappy purposes and thus violate their own best natures. There...

The Play (January 1933)

January 4, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 271 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Alice in Wonderland HILDREN of all ages, from six to sixty and over, will probably give many squeals of delight this...

The Play (December 1932)

December 28, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 245 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Biography NOW THAT "The Good Earth" has passed on to a not wholly deserved oblivion, the Theatre Guild has...

The Screen (December 1932)

THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Sign of the Cross HAVING given us in times past the "Ten Commandments" and the "King of Kings," Cecil de Mille does not hesitate in the least to tackle...

The Play (December 1932)

December 14, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 187 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Du Barry THE SPONSORS of this latest operetta on the life of Du A Barry have produced something which is a model...

The Play (December 1932)

December 7, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Empress Eugenie RECALLING the generous praise accorded to Cornelia Otis Skinner by the British press last summer, it is...

The Play (November 1932)

November 30, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Music in the Air THERE are several distinctive qualities to "Music in the Air," the latest musical play by Oscar Hammerstein...

The Play (November 1932)

November 23, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 105 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Dark Hours /^VVERWHELMING sincerity animates every moment of V-^ this play of the Passion by Don Marquis—a play...

The Play (November 1932)

November 16, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 75 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Late Christopher Bean NOT IN many days have I enjoyed a straight comedy as much as Sidney Howard's "The Late...

The Play (November 1932)

November 9, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 49 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Mademoiselle ONE HARDLY expects to see Miss Grace George, as one of our most adept comediennes, impersonating a stern...

The Play (November 1932)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Good Earth NOTHING, it appears, is quite so difficult to convey in the theatre as the feeling of the soil. Countless dramatists have tried it and failed....

The Play (October 1932)

October 19, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 593 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Nona I T IS always interesting when, for long years, an artist has worked entirely with one director, to note the changes...

The Play and Screen (October 1932)

538 THE COMMONWEAL October 5, t 9 3 z i Pigeon Cove, Mass. T O the Editor: In publishing Charles Willis Thompson's "Will Catholics Vote For Thomas?", you have done a necessary and courageous...

The Play and Screen (September 1932)

512 THE COMMONWEAL September 28, i 9 3 2 THE PLAY AND SCREEN BY RICHARD DANA SKINNER Clear All Wires/ V ITALITY, humor, satire and swift action abound in this play about foreign newspaper...

The Play And Screen (September 1932)

September 21, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 491 unpopular people just now. Yet we all know that the evolution of modern capitalism has separated the ownership of capital from the function of business...

The Play (August 1932)

August 31 , 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 431 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Domino RTISTIC subtlety, which has often been the distinguishing charm of French writers, has been quite submerged by the...

The Play and Screen (August 1932)

August 24, 1932 T H E C O M M 0 N W E A L 4 1 I THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER .4 Season in Prospect T HERE is neither much heat nor much light emerging from the pre-season...

The Screen (August 1932)

392 THE COMMONWEAL Augustx7, i 9 3 2 THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER dmerican Madness THE vigor of Walter Huston and the DOWNRIGHT, quiet poise of Pat O Brien go far to give a feeling...

The Screen (August 1932)

A u g u s t l o , 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 371 i THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Tom Brown of Culver I N SPITE of the fact that "Tom Brown of Culver" is very much of a propaganda film, in which...

The Screen (August 1932)

August 3, I932 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 35I THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Grand Hotel S AVE for those rather dingy products of Hollywood which fill in the gaps of what is so politely...

The Theatre (July 1932)

332 THE COMMONWEAL July 27, I932 THE THEATRE By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Hugh Miller Evokes Dickens T HE EXTRAORDINARY scope of the theatre and of the illusion it creates could receive no better...

The Play (June 1932)

46 THE COMMONWEAL June 29, 1932, Manhattan College Van Cortlandt Park and 242nd Street NEW YORK CITY In the Fieldston.Riverdale Section New College Buildings in a Splendid setting house New...

Stage and Screen (June 1932)

I88 THE COMMONWEAL June 15 , I932 STAGE AND By R. DANA Bridal Wise T HIS PLAY combines some distinctly spontaneous comedy with the elements of a bed-room farce and an indirect preachment...

Stage and Screen (June 1932)

t 5 8 THE COMMONWEAL . i m l l , i June 8, I 9 3 z STAGE AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER A Thousand Summers M ERRILL ROGERS, the author of Jane Cowl's latest vehicle, has taken his title...

The Play (May 1932)

76 THE COMMONWEAL May I8, I932 West Virginia, Tennessee, Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Kansas. These states produce about 64 percent of...

The Play (May 1932)

May I I , I932 THE COMMONWEAL 49 valuations were raised and taxes piled higher and higher, but even so, the towns were forced to borrow money and run deeper in debt. When a farmer's tax bill for...

In and Out of the Theatre (May 1932)

May4, x932 THE C O M M O N W E A L 2I IN AND OUT OF THE THEATRE By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Theatre in Art Exhibition T HE THEATRE of today evokes a sprawling state of mind. Its best qualities,...

The Play (April 1932)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Too True To Be Good IT WOULD be a hard-hearted person indeed who would not be stirred to a little pity for the aged Bernard Shaw as he speaks through the...

The Play (April 1932)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Season in Review EUGENE O'NEILL continues to hold the preeminent place among American dramatists, although his tenure is rather through default of other...

Stage and Screen (March 1932)

STAGE AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Emit Jannings in "Tempest" TO ALL who are interested in comparisons between the motion picture products of Hollywood and those of the Continental...

The Play (March 1932)

March 23, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 579 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Alice Sit-by-the-Fire IT IS like a sudden clear wind in a hot valley to hear the lines of Sir James Barrie again,...

The Play (March 1932)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Moon in the Yellow River THE THEATRE GUILD'S latest offering is a play of modern Ireland by a Dublin lawyer, named Denis Johnston, who has also done a...

The Play (March 1932)

March 9, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 525 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Riddle Me This! DANIEL RUBIN'S new play can go down promptly on your list as something well worth seeing—that is, if...

The Play (March 1932)

March 2, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 495 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER There's Always Juliet IN HIS latest play, "There's Always Juliet," John Van Druten, the author of "Young Woodley," exhibits...

The Play and Screen (February 1932)

469 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Fatal Alibi CHARLES LAUGHTON, fresh from many triumphs in England, made a very deep impression on all audiences in his first appearance in...

The Play (February 1932)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Animal Kingdom PHILIP BARRY has a most amazing quality in his dialogue which enables him to bring to life, at times, characters of singular...

The Play (February 1932)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Robin Hood MR. MILTON ABORN and his Civic Light Opera Company have given us, by and large, as many hours of sheer delight as any other theatrical group in...

The Play (February 1932)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Distant Drums IT WAS a fortunate day for Broadway and for the future of the American theatre when Dan Totheroh's new play, "Distant Drums," was produced last...

The Play (January 1932)

357 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Sophocles "Electra" THERE is something doubtful perhaps in the avowedly eau tious atmosphere of special matinee performances which seems to set on...

The Play (January 1932)

January 20, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 329 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Berlin VALENTINE WILLIAMS and Alice Crawford have constructed an excellent spy melodrama along well-established...

The Play (January 1932)

January 13, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 301 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Sentinels EVERY now and then, one gets the clearest of indications that one of the major problems with our theatre is...

The Play and Screen (January 1932)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Cynara ERNEST DOWSON once wrote a poem and called it "Cynara." Later, R. F. Gore-Browne wrote a novel on a similar theme and called it "An Imperfect...

The Play (December 1931)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Passing Present HOPE WILLIAMS and a generous dose of atmosphere are the chief merits of "The Passing Present," a new play by Gretchen Damrosch which seeks...

The Play (December 1931)

214 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER 1931THE GROUP THEATRE, that organization of younger enthusiasts which the Theatre Guild is sponsoring and which produced recently "The House of...

The Play (December 1931)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER After All WE NOW have an excellent chance to appraise more accurately the work of John Van Druten as a playwright. It will be remembered that a few years ago...

The Play (December 1931)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Reunion in Vienna ROBERT SHERWOOD has spoiled what might have been an interesting comedy about the dregs of old Austria by a very obvious and unimaginative...

The Play (December 1931)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Brief Moment WOULD that "Brief Moment" were briefer still! It is a distinct disappointment to find S. N. Behrman, the author of that highly promising Theatre Guild...

The Play (November 1931)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Wonder Boy IN THE mind of its authors, Edward Chodorov and Arthur Barton, and of its producer, Jed Harris, "Wonder Boy" is probably a terrific farcical...

The Play and Screen (November 1931)

76 THE COMMONWEAL November 18, 1931 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Geddes Production of Hamlet A CONSIDERABLE tempest is brewing in the theatrical teapot as a result of...

The Play (November 1931)

46 THE COMMONWEAL November 11, 1931 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Mourning Becomes Electro, Tf UGENE O'NEILL has at last written a straightforward ¦*—' tragedy of major proportions....

The Play (November 1931)

i8 THE COMMONWEAL November 4, 1931 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Balieff's ChauveSouris NIKITA BALIEFF is with us again! From every point of view this is an important fact of the...

The Play (October 1931)

October 28, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 639 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Lean Harvest T HERE is considerable distinction in the writing of "Lean Harvest," and equal distinction in the acting. There...

The Play (October 1931)

608 THE COMMONWEAL October 21, 1931 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Streets of New York IT IS hard to say with just what pleasantly malicious intent Lawrence Langner's New York Repertory...

The Play (October 1931)

October 14, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 583 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The House of Connelly T HERE are three reasons why "The House of Connelly" marks an important moment in the current...

The Play and Screen (October 1931)

October 7, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 555 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER He T HIS seems to be a season in which the giants are wearing clay shoes. Arthur Hopkins has just folded up his...

The Play and Screen (September 1931)

524 THE COMMONWEAL September 30, 1931 monastery is the extraordinary range of its buildings. For the cloisters are 2,000 feet in length and abutting on them are no less than fifty separate and...

The Play and Screen (September 1931)

496 THE COMMONWEAL September 23, 1931 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Man on Stilts T OO SLOW for farce, too malignantly obvious for satire, and without a scrap of the illusion...

The Play and Screen (September 1931)

470 THE COMMONWEAL September 16, 1931 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Friendship A LTHOUGH George M. Cohan is not precisely a doctor of moral theology, he manages in the space of the...

The Play (September 1931)

446 THE COMMONWEAL September 9, 1931 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Jitter Tomorrow T HE SEASON has begun to stir slightly. It has been exceptionally late in getting under way, due partly,...

The Play and Screen (August 1931)

406 THE COMMONWEAL August 26, 1931 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Huckleberry Finn T HAT same romantic vagabondage haunts the episodes of the screen version of "Huckleberry Finn"...

The Play (August 1931)

346 THE COMMONWEAL August 5, 1931 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Shoot the Works A S A COOPERATIVE venture in these perilously unemployed times, one feels disposed to be more than charitable...

The Play (July 1931)

324 THE COMMONWEAL July 29, 1931 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER lolanthe F OR SONIE time past, as readers of this department may recall, I have been mentioning the increasingly distinguished...

The Play and Screen (July 1931)

July 15, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 285 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Pirates of Penzance P ERHAPS it is unorthodox to place the "Pirates of Penzance" rather far down the scale among the...

The Theatre (July 1931)

July 8, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 265 sense that America was invited by Europe, after France was forced by the world to recognize that "Germany's final liability had to be determined," to quote Thomas W....

The Play and Screen (July 1931)

246 THE COMMONWEAL July I, 1931 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Patience A FEW weeks ago, I had occasion to remark the exceptional quality of Milton Aborn's revival of Gilbert and...

The Play (June 1931)

218 THE COMMONWEAL June 24, 1931 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The flmateur Theatre F OR THE last three years, I have meant to devote this department for at least one week to the adventurous...

The Play (June 1931)

188 THE C O M M O N WEAL June 17, 1931 amongst strangers—hated yet feared—have they wandered from nation to nation, bearing with them the visible signs of God's curse. Like Cain, marked with a...

The Play and Screen (June 1931)

June 1o, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 159 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Precedent ONCE more the old Provincetown Theatre has proved that vitality often finds its richest source in humble...

The Play (June 1931)

130 THE COMMONWEAL June 3, 1931 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER On the Curious flrt of Playgoing P OSSIBLY a better title for this slight digression would be, "The Curious Art of Professional...

The Play and Screen (May 1931)

May 27, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 103 I believe Father Gillis must have regretted the final paragraph when he saw his first letter in print. A man may dedicate himself to a cause in good faith, but if...

The Play (May 1931)

May 20, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 77 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Pulitzer Award T HE PULITZER PRIZE play for this year has been announced. It is "Alison's House" by Susan Glaspell, and was...

The Play and Dance (May 1931)

48 THE COMMONWEAL May 13, 1931 MACHINES OR MEN? Somerville, Mass. TO the Editor: As an example of the part that machinery takes in our industrial life, and without considering the assimilation in...

The Play and Screen (May 1931)

16 THE COMMONWEAL May 6, 1931 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Brass Ankle D UBOSE HEYWARD is not quite so happy in his choice of theme for "Brass Ankle" as he was in the case of...

The Play (April 1931)

Melo THE FRENCH theatre has not been conspicuously stimulating during the last decade. Its plaj's, for the most part, have remained neatly pigeon-holed according to accepted types. They have...

The Play (April 1931)

Give Me Yesterday IF A CHILD lisps out the astonishing statement that twice two equals five, and if that same child weaves a fanciful tale around the idea of the mysterious fifth, the wise...

The Play (April 1931)

Getting Married—and Shaw PERHAPS, after all, Bernard Shaw's "Getting Married" is actually a comedy, though I am inclined to the view that it is only a parody, and a distinctly mediocre parody at...

The Play (April 1931)

Camille WHEN a certain New York critic, more noted for his graceful pen than for gracious compliments, wrote, some three years ago, of Miss Le Gallienne's "meager little talent," he opened...

The Play (April 1931)

Miracle at Verdun IT IS easy enough to say that "Miracle at Verdun," the play on war and peace, death and resurrection, ideals and disillusion which Hans Chlumberg wrote just before his...

The Play (March 1931)

The Admirable Crichton THE FIRST glamorous hint of spring weather generally brings with it one of George Tyler's revivals—an event that has taken on a truly institutional character as the...

The Play and Screen (March 1931)

As Husbands Go IN FOUR plays out of five, Rachel Crothers is apt to carry on some pleasantly subtle propaganda against the more disturbing fads and habits of the day. As its subtlety is mixed...

The Play (March 1931)

The Venetian Glass Nephew BY FAR the most novel offering ot the season—novel, that is, in relation to Broadway conventions—is Ruth Hale's <iramatization of "The Venetian Glass Nephew," from...

The Play (March 1931)

Grand Hotel THESE notes on "Grand Hotel," Vicki Baum's play in translation from the German, would be inexcusably late were it not for the fact that this play bids fair to rival "The Green...

The Play (February 1931)

The Barretts of Wimpole Street MISS KATHERINE CORNELL signalizes her entrance into the actor-manager field by presenting Rudolf Besier's uneven but highly interesting play on the romance of...

The Screen (February 1931)

Trader Horn NOT MUCH oftener than once a year, some motion picture producer presents a film of epic quality and proportions. Except for certain features I shall mention presently—in...

The Play (February 1931)

Green Grow the Lilacs A T L A S T there is good cause for some excitement in the -i^*-current theatrical season. Not since the tender, if somewhat exaggerated, quaintness of "The Green Pastures"...

The Play (February 1931)

The Truth Game IT IS quite refreshing to run into an occasional comedy that thoroughly justifies its existence without recourse to the current vulgarity of the theatre. Ivor Novello has...

The Play (January 1931)

Philip Goes Forth A CERTAIN rejoicing fills the hearts of jaded theatre reviewers at that season of the year when a new play by George Kelly or Philip Barry or Martin Flavin or Sidney Howard...

The Play (January 1931)

Five Star Final OF ALL the many current plays which outrun good taste in the use of blasphemy and other alleged forms of realism, "Five Star Final" stands conspicuous as almost the only one...

The Play (January 1931)

Midnight THE THEATRE GUILD at last finds itself as the proud producer of an American melodrama—a slightly though not painfully embarrassing situation for that august group, The Guild has no...

The Play and Screen (January 1931)

Tom Sawyer THE MOVIES have a habit of coming frequently to their own rescue—a more pronounced habit, by the way, than the current stage has. The stage flows on from one absurdity of obscenity to...

The Play and Screen (December 1930)

A New Shylock SHAKESPEARE'S "Merchant of Venice" has yet to be given in a manner to captivate modern audiences. In many ways the play itself is poor—always excepting the exquisite poetry of its...

The Play (December 1930)

Overture BY EVERY right, "Overture," written by William Bolitho, the late brilliant columnist of the New York World, should command a place among the most important events of the theatrical...

The Play (December 1930)

Scarlet Sister Mary THE MATTER of having one's time thoroughly occupied with play-going, to the exclusion of much possible reading —important and otherwise—has its occasional meager...

The Play (December 1930)

Art and Mrs. Bottle THAT indefatigable team of producers, Macgowan and Reed, having decided to let Jane Cowl indulge in a repertory season have followed up the conspicuously charming production...

The Play and Screen (November 1930)

The Tyrant ONE M I G H T expect a play of considerable dash and fire and color from the pen of Rafael Sabatini. But "The Tyrant" has chiefly color—in the literal sense of costume...

The Play (November 1930)

Elizabeth the Queen MAXWELL ANDERSON, who has contributed much of promise to the stage in recent years, both alone and in collaboration with Laurence Stallings, is the author of the second...

The Play (November 1930)

Roar China THE THEATRE GUILD has given itself over to what one critic aptly terms a Chinese "Uncle Tom's Cabin"— except for the obvious fact that it is Russian and not Chinese, and that it is...

The Play and Screen (November 1930)

Solid South S O MUCH genial warmth and friendly satire pervades this story of a poverty-stricken family mansion of the deep South, that one reports reluctantly a rather painful evaporation of...

The Play and Screen (October 1930)

672 THE COMMONWEAL October 29, 1930 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Twelfth Night ON THREE separate occasions recently, we have had the joyous intimation that Shakespeare...

The Play (October 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Stepdaughters of War THIS time, it is Kenyon Nicholson who endeavors to mobilize the anti-war spirit by a play of long-drawn-out depression. Stepdaughters...

The Play (October 1930)

6io THE COMMONWEAL October 15, 1930 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER One, Two, Three! THE always competent, sometimes amusing and occasionally penetrating Ferenc Molnar is with us again...

The Play and Screen (October 1930)

I THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Fine and Dandy T IS never so easy to discover "what is wrong with the theatre" as when you strike an example of what is at least 90 percent...

The Play and Screen (October 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Rhapsody EVERY now and then one is brought to realize sharply that good ingredients, good actors, a good playwright and a first-rate...

The Play and Screen (September 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER As the Season Opens f^OURAGE may presently emerge on Broadway in the form of an electrifying play, or the swift, novel and masterly...

The Screen (September 1930)

THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Abraham Lincoln f I ^HE screen has long owed a large debt to D. W. Griffith. A In the dark days, some fifteen years ago, when "a Mary Pickford subject" or a...

The Screen (September 1930)

G THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Old English ALSWORTHY is, at heart, a cheap and shallow sentimentalist. He has, of course, a real power of verbal imagery which gives his portraits of...

The Play and Screen (August 1930)

D THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Dancing Partner AVID BELASCO—"dean of American producers," "father of modern realism," etc.—is at it again. It has become his specialty of recent...

The Screen (August 1930)

THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Grumpy TT IS said that Cyril Maude has played in about fourteen •*• hundred performances of Grumpy—which means that during the laborious course of five...

The Screen (July 1930)

THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Dawn Patrol 'Is HE flood of war stories let loose when the gates of What ¦* Price Glory were opened has not yet been checked. In most cases, the implied...

The Screen (July 1930)

w THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Let Us Be Gay E ARE beginning now in earnest to get the crop of Broadway hits that Hollywood deems suitable for transcription to the screen. Up to recent...

The Screen (July 1930)

266 THE COMMONWEAL July 2, 1930 THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Movietone Follies THE New Movietone Follies of 1930 are not—as one might suspect—presentations of stars in the...

The Play and Screen (June 1930)

T THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Lysistrata WO thousand three hundred and forty-one years ago, Aristophanes presented for the first time a comedy, to be known as Lysistrata. Today, the...

The Play and Screen (June 1930)

192 THE COMMONWEAL June 18, 1930 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Milestones IT BECOMES increasingly evident each year that something must be done to maintain intact,...

The Screen (June 1930)

June ii, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 165 THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Silent Enemy I SUBMIT The Silent Enemy as triumphant support of at least one contention I have made concerning...

The Play and Screen (June 1930)

AL THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Tavern L the mild madness that goes to make up magic is ¦ packed into The Tavern. It is one of those deliriously frantic pieces which I was...

The Play and Screen (May 1930)

May 28, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 109 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Ibsen's Vikings YOUR most confirmed Ibsenite will probably admit that The Vikings is better in idea than...

The Screen (May 1930)

THE SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER King of Jazz NOTHING could better illustrate the growing flexibility and range of the talking color screen than the general excellence, variety, charm and...

The Play and Screen (May 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Mm Le Gallienne's Juliet THE Civic Repertory Theatre has done much fine work during the last three seasons. It has brought classics to life. It has...

The Play and Screen (May 1930)

22 THE COMMONWEAL May 7, 1930 THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Stage in Retrospect IN SEVERAL respects, the major season of 1929-1930 now drawing to a close has been...

The Play (April 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Hotel Universe PHILIP BARRY'S new play, in one long act without intermission, has fared rather badly at the hands of New York critics. Their objections to certain...

The Play and Screen (April 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Journey's End on the Screen N SPITE of the fact that Tiffany Productions labels its presentation of Journey's End as "the greatest screen drama of all...

The Play and Screen (April 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Old Rascal WILLIAM HODGE has stood for something quite definite in the American theatre-nothing very exalted on the artistic plane, perhaps, but...

The Play and Screen (April 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Last Mile JOHN WEXLEY'S play about a mutiny in the death house of a western state prison should be considered in two separate aspects, that is, in...

The Play and Screen (April 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Screen Captures John McCormack FOR many reasons, the capture of John McCormack's voice and personality by the screen stands forth as one of the...

The Play and Screen (March 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Mrs. Fiske in The Rivals EVERY now and then-but not too often-it is pleasant to slip back into the artificialities and the conventions of the period of...

The Play (March 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Green Pastures NO PLAY of recent years has loosed such a torrent of emotional praise from at least one section of the critical press as The Green Pastures by...

The Play and Screen (March 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Shaw's Apple Cart IT MATTERS very little whether Shaw borrowed many of the ideas for his new play (one writer traces most of them to Belloc) or...

The Play (March 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Infinite Shoeblack THIS play by Norman MacOwan is one of the best recent examples I have seen of the danger of writing a play around a preconceived idea, and...

The Play and Screen (February 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Joseph APPARENTLY the John Erskine fashion of modernizing ancient history will persist for years to come. This time one Bertram Bloch has taken the...

The Play and Screen (February 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Rebound THE first Arthur Hopkins-Hope Williams cycle rounds itself out with this play by Donald Ogden Stewart. In Paris Bound, written by Philip Barry,...

The Play and Screen (February 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Women Have Their Way MISS Le Gallienne has brought to her copious Fourteenth-Street stage another of those incomparable little plays by the...

The Play and Screen (February 1930)

THE PLAY AND SCREEN By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Everything's Jake DON MARQUIS is a versatile writer of many moods, evidently torn somewhat in his own mind between the things he would like best to...

The Play (January 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Death Takes a Holiday THIS play, from the original Italian by Alberto Casella, has been a long time in reaching the New York stage. For some years Norman Geddes...

The Play (January 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Richelieu INSPITE of the sophisticated critics of the daily press, there is still ample vitality in Bulwer-Lytton's play of Richelieu, as retouched and slightly...

The Play (January 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Meteor METEOR, by S. N. Behrman (author of The Second Man) is an excellent example of the type of play that provides a vivid impression at the moment of the...

The Play (January 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Ruth Draper-Dramatist THE incomparable Ruth Draper's New York season has begun. As an objective phenomenon alone it has points of unique interest. Here is a...

The Play (January 1930)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Michael and Mary JUST as the Theatre Guild has become producer extraordinary for Bernard Shaw in this country, it is beginning to appear that Charles Hopkins has...

The Play (December 1929)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Shakespeare a la Mode THAT new play-producing group known as the New York Theatre Assembly has had a rather unfortunate time in trying what might have proved an...

The Play (December 1929)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Concerning Sherlock Holmes THE current revival of Sherlock Holmes, with the seventy-four-year-old veteran, William Gillette, himself heading the cast, brings back...

The Play (December 1929)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Game of Love and Death THE comparative failure of Romain Rolland's play on the French Revolution-one of a series-to stimulate an enthusiastic critical...

The Play (December 1929)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Winter Bound A PROFESSOR of the drama, Thomas H. Dickinson, has stepped from his niche into the arena of actual play-writing, and has produced a play of...

The Play (November 1929)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER IT RARELY happens that one playwright has three plays running on Broadway at the same time. It has, in the past, happened to O'Neill, to Shakespeare and to...

The Play (November 1929)

THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Gluck's Orpheus FOR one entrancing week, the Provincetown Playhouse, now installed uptown in the Garrick theatre, revived their production of Orpheus. It is very...

The Play (November 1929)

COMMONWEAL THE 20 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER Ladies of the Jury O F omega MRS. of FISKE, Fred Ballard's more presently. new comedy, She but is it the is...

The Play (October 1929)

644 THE COMMONWEAL October 23, I929 when he was a boy, and how he and his brother netted them in the rye lot at the edge of the woods. They would cut a slender hardwood sapling forty feet...

The Play (October 1929)

October 9, x929 THE COMMONWEAL 59 x world to come, she will not find herself at liberty to indulge in the pleasing pastime of flinging flowers at her equally self- willed companions, until...

The Play (October 1929)

~;64 T H E C O M M O N W E A L October 2, I929 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Sea Gull ANY consider Chekov's The Sea Gull his finest play. It was presented last year in a...

The Play and Other Things (September 1929)

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The Play (September 1929)

507 ???? ?????? By RICHARD DANA SKINNER ????????? ?? ? ???????? MR. BROOKS ATKINSON, one of the most studious ???? ?? ??? ???? ???? ??????????? ??????? ?? ??? ????? York daily press, has just...

The Play (July 1929)

316 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER When Ziegfeld Stumbles THE penalty of achieving glory is having to maintain glory. Mr. Ziegfeld has been so busy and successful at glorifying the...

The Play (June 1929)

June 5, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 133 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Season In Review THE official theatrical season, which has more or less given way to the period of summer musical...

The Play (May 1929)

Io4 THE COMMONWEAL May 29 , I929 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Perfect Alibi T HERE are two good reasons for writing a very much belated review of A. A. Milne's detective comedy....

The Play (May 1929)

May 22, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 77 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Grand Street Follies THE Grand Street Follies have not quite graduated from their once naive estate into the full...

The Play (May 1929)

50 THE COMMONWEAL May 15, 1929 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Freiburg Passion Play NINETEEN years ago, in the village of Oberammergau, I first saw the Passion Play. The memory...

The Play (May 1929)

May 8, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 21 THE PLAY By RICHARD DANA SKINNER The Sea-Gull IF YOU want an excellent illustration of the relatively small importance of elaborate production in creating...

The Play (May 1929)

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