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Veale, James
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Vecsey, Christopher
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Veenendaal, Cornelia
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Veillette-Stonehart, Jo-Ann
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Velde, Paul
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Verkamp, Bernard J.
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THE REAL DEVIL OF THE THEATER
(December 1941)
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The Real Devil of the Theater
The trouble with the American stage. By Grenville Vernon I F THE American theater has not yet entered the valley of the shadow, it is fast approach- ing it....
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THE STAGE
(December 1941)
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z78 THE COMMONWEAL December 5, I94X the vital atmosphere of supernatural religion. I do not know of any better book to spread widely among young men and young women, for whom already Maryknoll has...
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THE STAGE
(November 1941)
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x44 THE COMMONWEAL November z8, t94I ill i i !
The Stage 8j' Screen i "11 '11 Macbeth NCE AGAIN we are in Maurice Evans's debt for o his presentation of a Shakespearean tragedy, and...
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THE STAGE
(November 1941)
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November 2I, I94I THE COMMONWEAL I2 3 as to our war attitude. P. B. questioned the propriety of a clergy poll on the matter of our entry into this war, while R. B. in an admirable factual analysis...
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THE STAGE
(November 1941)
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November z4, 194I THE COMMONWEAL 93 Communications THE FRENCH CATHOLIC CONSCIENCE T O the Editors" M. Henri-Haye's letter (November 7) seems to me to require only the following rather simple...
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THE STAGE
(November 1941)
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November 7, I941 THE COMMONWEAL publicly that it is against the nazis and is not against the United States. If he succeeds in obtaining such a proclam- ation he can, when he gets back to Mexico,...
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THE STAGE
(October 1941)
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5o THE COMMONWEAL October 3 I , I 9 4 I But the Irish love freedom and they love their religion. Many of them are aware, in spite of governmental censorship, that both are being attacked. So,...
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THE STAGE
(October 1941)
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16 THE COMMONWEAL October 24, 1941 rejoinder, of "the motives of the belligerent governments." This is inadequate as a test of the morality of the war. Whether or not the British government is...
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THE STAGE
(October 1941)
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The Stage Ah Wilderness! THE YEAR that "Ah, Wilderness" was produced seemed to mark a turning point in the career of Eugene O'Neill, for that same season also saw "Days Without End." The former...
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THE STAGE
(October 1941)
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The Stage & Screen The Joos Ballet THE JOOS BALLET, formerly of the Theatre des Champs Elysees, Paris, and more recently of Darlington Hall, England, is by now in New York a known and welcome...
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THE STAGE
(October 1941)
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The Stage Cuckoos on the Hearth " ARSENIC AND OLD LACE" having proved the appeal of murder as comedy, it was to be expected that the muse of laughter would be summoned again to preside over dark...
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THE STAGE
(September 1941)
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The Stage & Screen The Wookey "THE WOOKEY" is a play about the little people of England under the nazi terror, and if it is no masterpiece, it is poignant in much of its...
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THE STAGE
(September 1941)
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The Stage Village Green THE THEATER SEASON of 1941-42 has opened and, mirabilis mirabile, with a play which may very well prove a success. The opening plays of the year are usually pretty weak...
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THE STAGE
(June 1941)
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The Stage The Players of the Year THE ACTING of the theatre season of 194041 was of a distinctly higher average than the plays. Of the veterans there was Helen Hayes's human if undistinguished...
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THE STAGE
(June 1941)
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The Stage & Screen The Plays of the Year THE THEATRICAL season just closed has been far from a banner year, at least as to the new plays produced. Whether it is the war, or just a general drying...
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THE STAGE
(June 1941)
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The Stage The End of "Tobacco Road" THE CLOSE last week of "Tobacco Road" after a New York run of seven years and a half is a new mark in theatrical engagements. It is more than eight hundred...
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SIGNOR GATTI-CASAZZA'S METROPOLITAN
(June 1941)
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COMMONWEAL THE x54 spontaneous vital attitude, which otters otiense to no one. Hispanidad is not an enemy of the United States. It seeks a sincere friendship with the United States, a...
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THE STAGE
(June 1941)
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THE COMMONWEAL June 6, 1941 Many partisans of Britain are shocked at such distrust. There is a very sincere ring in their voices when they say that Britain has learned her lesson, that British...
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OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN'S MANHATTAN
(May 1941)
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Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan
Those were days never to return.
By Grenville Vernon
THE OPERA in New York from 1908 to 1920-we who were young then know that it was touched with magic! There were...
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THE STAGE
(May 1941)
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The Stage
The Happy Days
"THE HAPPY DAYS" closes the theatre season of 1940-41 with a play of charm and tenderness, beautifully acted and directed. It stands with "The Beautiful People" and...
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THE STAGE
(May 1941)
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The Stage & Screen What Might Have Been HALLIE FLANAGAN, the director of the Federal Theatre, has in her book "Arena" published the history of that tragic enterprise. I say tragic because...
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THE STAGE
(May 1941)
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The Stage More on Saroyan I WOULD be the last to urge that William Saroyan become the founder of a school. Indeed between Mr. Saroyan and the very word "school" there is an antinomy. No one will...
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THE STAGE
(May 1941)
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The Stage
The Experimental Theatre
THE SECOND and third productions of the Experimental Theatre were rather more in the line of experiment than was the opening "Trojan Women," and the third in...
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THE STAGE
(May 1941)
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The Stage
The Beautiful People
ONCE MORE William Saroyan has caused us to take him almost at his own evaluation. I say "almost" because Mr. Saroyan thinks that he comes next to Shakespeare, while I...
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THE STAGE & SCREEN
(April 1941)
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The Stage & Screen Watch on the Rhine I WENT to "Watch on the Rhine" with high hopes, as I had read the reviews of several of my fellow critics, and with one exception they declared Miss...
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THE STAGE
(April 1941)
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The Stage & Screen Native Son HAVEN'T read Richard Wright's novel from which I the play "Native Son" was adapted by Mr. Wright and Paul Green, and so I cannot say whether or not the play...
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THE STAGE
(March 1941)
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574 THE COMMONWEAL March 28, 1941 The Stage & Screen The Doctor's Dilemma I DON'T know what Bernard Shaw would think of 1 Katherine Cornell's enactment of Jennifer Dubedat, but I know it...
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COMMUNICATIONS
(March 1941)
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542 THE COMMONWEAL March 21, 1941 Communications LATIN AMERICA IS DYNAMITE Roland Park, Md. rthe Editors: The Reverend Edwin Ryan is right on most of his points in "Latin America is Dynamite"...
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THE STAGE
(March 1941)
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52o THE COMMONWEAL March 14, 1941 Books of the Week Problems, Unlimited ilmerican Farmers in the World Crisis. C. T. Schmidt. Oxford.$3.00. THE AMERICAN "farm problem" is roughly and summarily...
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THE STAGE
(March 1941)
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496 THE COMMONWEAL March 7, 1941 its blessing to the new.' Hoffding uses the word 'due' ironically, but it is not necessary to take it so. The Church's opposition to the new is proper, even if the...
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THE STAGE
(February 1941)
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February z8, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 475 backward, instead of forward with the socially awakened bishops and clergy, under the banner of Leo XIII's socially revolutionary encydicals. But THE COMMONWEAL...
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THE STAGE
(February 1941)
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The Stage & Screen Liberty Jones an AFTER the power and imagination of "Here Come Athe Clowns" and the skilful construction and pungent dialogue of "Philadelphia Story," Philip Barry's latest play...
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THE STAGE
(February 1941)
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February 14, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 423 The Stage & Screen The Leading American Actress THERE is a certain juvenility in the American pastime of voting on who is the best this and that—the college...
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THE STAGE
(February 1941)
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February 7, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 401 The Stage & Screen Lady in the Dark THE LADY IN THE DARK" is the saga of Gertrude Lawrence. The play part is written by Moss Hart, and capably enough to...
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THE STAGE
(January 1941)
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january 31, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL THE JEWS IN VICHY FRANCH CLAIRE HUCHET BISHOP.375 The Stage & Screen The Cream in the Well LYNN RIGGS'S latest play is of the school of Eugene O'Neil's "Desire...
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THE STAGE
(February 1941)
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The Stage & Screen Eight O'Clock Tuesday THIS is another mystery play, and not a funny one. It is by Robert Wallsten and Mignon G. Eberhart, and its novelty consists in starting with murder, and...
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THE STAGE
(January 1941)
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The Stage & Screen Flight to the West THE SENTIMENTS expressed in Elmer Rice's latest play are praiseworthy, the acting excellent, the staging effective. Moreover the theme is up to the...
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THE STAGE
(January 1941)
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January zo, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 303 Old Acquaintance M R. JOHN VAN DRUTEN is one of the few men now writing for the stage who knows how to write high comedy. His touch is at once delicate and...
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THE STAGE
(January 1941)
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282 THE COMMONWEAL January 3, 1941 The Stage & Screen The Old Foolishness THE FINEST PLAY so far this season lasted just three performances. The reason was the almost universal critical disfavor...
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THE STAGE
(December 1940)
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December 27, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 255 while replying to the routine questions put to donors, he had suddenly remembered that years ago, during a trip through the Balkans, he had contracted malaria....
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THE STAGE
(December 1940)
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232 THE COMMONWEAL December 20, 1940 The Stage & Screen Trivia LAST WEEK the theatrical season returned to its state of somnolence. There were three offerings—that is, two plays and a...
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THE STAGE
(December 1940)
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December 13, x94o THE COMMONWEAL 209 itself if it sends its readers to the most important of all such books, Don Luigi Sturzo's monumental and inspiring "Church and State" (Longmans, $5.00). But...
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THE STAGE
(December 1940)
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18o THE COMMONWEAL December 6, 194o to alleviate the sufferings of these most unfortunate members of Christ's fold. Today they stretch out begging hands to you, their friends, asking the aid of...
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THE STAGE
(November 1940)
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November 22, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 127 The Stage El Screen Hollywood on Broadway THE REAL Hollywood is a state of mind rather than a place. As a state of mind it is material for art, but it should...
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THE STAGE
(November 1940)
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The Stage €.9" Screen Panama Hattie THE DEMAND for seats for "Panama Hattie" is enormous, so against the suffrage of the people supported by the unanimous approval of the daily newspaper critics,...
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THE STAGE
(November 1940)
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8o THE COMMONWEAL November 8, 1940 The Stage & Screen Charley's Aunt 44uOR AN evening of pure unadulterated fun you must go to 'Charley's Aunt.' " This was a phrase used by a dramatic critic in...
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THE STAGE
(November 1940)
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56 THE COMMONWEAL November 1, 1940 The Stage ei Screen The Return of the Spoken Word AT THE TURN of the century rhetoric went out of fashion in the political arena. At about the same period...
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THE STAGE
(October 1940)
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24 THE COMMONWEAL October 25, 1940 The Stage & Screen Gilbert and Sullivan THE LYRIC OPERA COMPANY certainly de- serves encouragement; it has the best chorus I have ever heard in a Gilbert and...
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THE STAGE
(October 1940)
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530 THE COMMONWEAL October 18,...
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STAGE
(October 1940)
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October I1, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 511 language which have made so many converts as these and talk a lot of...
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THE STAGE
(October 1940)
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490 THE COMMONWEAL October 4, 1940 violent speech in which he lauded "that fine American, Fritz Kuhn." It was...
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THE STAGE
(September 1940)
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September 27, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 469 'The NLRB Is Right' (August I6)." Concerning the ...
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THE STAGE
(September 1940)
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September 20, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 449 cause great...
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THE STAGE
(August 1940)
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390 THE COMMONWEAL August 30, 1940 have had so...
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THE STAGE
(July 1940)
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232 THE COMMONWEAL JulY 5, 1940 understand ! The Democrats is for the poor and the Republicans is all rich...
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THE STAGE
(June 1940)
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212 THE COMMONWEAL June 28, 1940 Christianity, without raising a hand to help them and still have any...
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THE STAGE
(June 1940)
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June 21, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 191 ican institutions, and many whom I have consulted, follow- God...
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THE STAGE
(June 1940)
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170 THE COMMONWEAL June 14, 1940 and wars are merely the horrible signs and omens; but we Lamb should have...
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THE STAGE
(June 1940)
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148 THE COMMONWEAL June 7, 1940 An adequate answer would require an article as lengthy as was his. I...
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THE STAGE
(May 1940)
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MaY 31, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 129 The Stage &...
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THE STAGE
(May 1940)
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May 24, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 103 physical vigor would...
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THE STAGE
(May 1940)
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82 TIIL COMMONWEAL May 17, 1940 the New Deal is in general, and as far as it goes, con- sistent with...
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THE STAGE
(May 1940)
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62 THE COMMONWEAL May 10, 1940 letters and photographs and other material will be copied and faithfully returned....
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THE STAGE
(April 1940)
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April 26, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 19 with his pleasure in putrefaction, is no doubt an extreme case. One...
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THE STAGE
(April 1940)
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An International Incident MR. VINCENT SHEEAN is a Communist fellowtraveler turned American isolationist, but "An International Incident" proves he has not yet turned a dramatist. His play is...
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THE STAGE
(April 1940)
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Lady In Waiting MISS GLADYS GEORGE is back again, and we can throw up our caps for that at least. Her play, a dramatization by Margaret Sharp of her novel "The Nutmeg Tree," is not in itself...
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THE STAGE
(April 1940)
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Liliom IT IS twenty years since "Liliom" was first given in New York, yet it is today as fresh as it was in that far-ofF happier time. There are those who brand Ferenc Molnar as a mere...
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THE STAGE
(March 1940)
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A Passenger to Bali ' I TH ONE or two exceptions my colleagues on the daily papers did not like "A Passenger to Bali." I found Ellis St. Joseph's play one of the most interesting things of the...
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THE STAGE
(March 1940)
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IN T H E O LD DAYS," Max Eastman writes,* A socialism appealed to people with widely differing "patterns of volition." He lists three main groups: "first, the rebels against tyranny and...
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THE STAGE
(March 1940)
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Leave Her to Heaven IT IS always good to welcome back from Hollj'wood a star of former days, and when that star has been away for a good fifteen years she is doubly welcome. Ruth Chatterton was...
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THE STAGE
(February 1940)
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Two for the Show LE T US have more such reviews as "Two for the Show," which depend for their effect on acting and writing talent instead of on vulgarity and splendiferous costumes and scenery....
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THE STAGE
(February 1940)
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John Barrymore JOHN BARRYMORE was once America's most stimulating actor, perhaps the only one of his time who was touched with the wand of genius. In "My Dear Children" there are moments of the...
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THE STAGE
(February 1940)
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Two on an Island THERE IS much that is engaging in Elmer Rice's panoramic play of life on Manhattan Island. Mr. Rice has a sympathy and an understanding of the lower and middle ordei^ of...
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THE STAGE
(February 1940)
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Juno and the Paycock T f T T S I X T E E N YEARS since "Juno and the PayA cock" was first acted at the Abbey Theatre. Sean O'Casey has never equaled his first play, though "The Plow and the...
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THE STAGE
(January 1940)
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Who Ride on White Horses THE MIMES AND MUMMERS of Fordham University is to be congratulated on the skill with which it produced this play by Richard Breen and Harry Schnibbe. "Who Ride on White...
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THE STAGE
(January 1940)
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Christmas Eve THERE IS certainly nothing which can offend the moral sense in "Christmas Eve"; indeed in its basic philosophy and in its ch"aracterization it might well have come from the pen of...
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THE STAGE
(January 1940)
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Kindred PAUL VINCENT CARROLL in "Shadow and Substance" and "The White Steed" trod firmly along the pathway to the stars, but in "Kindred" he has slipped off. If he had only landed on the firm...
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THE STAGE
(January 1940)
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When We Are Married IT IS BECOMING more and more evident that the talent of Mr. J. B. Priestley is not a talent for the theatre. In only one play, "Dangerous Corner," has the English novelist...
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THE STAGE
(December 1939)
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Hellzapoppin I D ID N O T see "Hellzapoppin" when it was first produced and therefore am unable to make any comparisons between it and the second version. All I can say is I enjoyed most of the...
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THE STAGE
(December 1939)
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Maurice Evans's Hamlet CLJ T A M L E T " as Shakespeare wrote it, and certainly A X in many respects as he must have wished it played, is again on view in New York. We again owe this treat...
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THE STAGE
(December 1939)
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Morning's at Seven IT MAY BE that the Freudians will claim Paul Osborn's new play as their own, and when they do I have no doubt that Mr. Osborn will chuckle. He has the sense of humor to know...
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THE STAGE
(December 1939)
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Key Largo MAXWELL ANDERSON'S latest play is a tragedy of the loss of faith—not religious faith, but faith in any meaning or belief in life. King McCleod is a radical who in Spain joins the...
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THE STAGE
(December 1939)
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Thunder Rock ROBERT ARDREY is still a playwright of promise. Unforturiately, however, he has been this in all of his plays. He has imagination, he can write felicitously, he has a sense of...
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THE STAGE
(November 1939)
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Life with Father THIS IS an altogether delightful comedy. Whether or not it completely visualizes Clarence Day's well known book I am unable to say, as I have never read it; all I can say is...
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THE STAGE
(November 1939)
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Too Many Girls "TOO MANY GIRLS" is a very fresh and pleasing X musical. It has speed, high spirits, youth, and the youngsters who make up the cast are very pleasing persons who, in addition to...
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THE STAGE
(November 1939)
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The Time of Your Life WILLIAM SAROYAN'S play according to old time canons may not be a play at all, but it is certainly the most interesting work the theatre has revealed thus far this season....
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CAVALIER
(November 1939)
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TN HER LATEST BOOK, "Men, Women, A and Places," Sigrid Undset devotes a chapter to Henry Longan Stuart's "Weeping Cross" and entitles that chapter "Cavalier." In that one word she sums up not...
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THE STAGE
(November 1939)
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The Man Who Came to Dinner THIS IS another Kaufman-Hart success. They seem to flow in as regularly as the tides, and if they are unimportant in the realm of literature or psychology, they are...
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THE STAGE
(October 1939)
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Gertrude Lawrence SAMSON RAPHAELSON'S play is entitled "Skylark," which does permit one to begin his review with "Hail to thee, bright spirit," and that is most appropriate whenever Miss...
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THE STAGE
(October 1939)
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October 2o, I939 THE II COMMONWEAL ]leSIa e .CScreen 11 They Knew IFhat They Wanted T HE WHIRLIOIG of time brings many changes. 'They Knew What They Wanted," a Pulitzer prize-winning play...
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THE STAGE
(October 1939)
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October I 3 , 1939 THE C O M M O N W E A L 563 how I cannot imagine thinking of "Ma" without at the same time thinking of the love "that passeth all understanding." The book is coarse in spots,...
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THE STAGE
(September 1939)
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September 29 , 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 519 Journcy's End I DID NOT SEE "Journey's End" when it was given fourteen years ago, and therefore I have no comparisons to make. Some of the daily critics...
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THE STAGE
(July 1939)
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300 THE COMMONWEAL July I4, I939 . . . . . "' S t a g T i l e e Screen I I [ the communist was too much, and the inclusion in its direction of such able men as Emmet Lavery, while...
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THE STAGE
(July 1939)
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z78 THE COMMONWEAL July 7, I939 I The Stage !! #..r Screen The Streets of Paris 66TH, E STREETS OF PARIS" is of the breed of -i- 'Hellzapoppin," and the association of Olsen and Johnson with...
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THE STAGE
(June 1939)
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258 THE C O M M O N W E A L J u n e 3 ~ , I 9 3 9 The repeated strong denials of Bolivian officials, at home and abroad, that the new phase of the Busch dictatorship resembles European...
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THE STAGE
(June 1939)
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240 THE COMMONWEAL June 23 , 1939 I! The Stage Screen The Season's Plays I T WOU, LD BE IDLE to assert that the season just ending has touched any high-water mark in America-'s theatrical...
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THE STAGE
(June 1939)
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218 THE COMMONWEAL June I6, 1939 sta .i rl Tile e Screen i i i The Ballet Caravan T HIS new organization of dancers under the direction of Lincoln Kirstein, with Fritz Kitzinger as...
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THE STAGE
(June 1939)
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188 THE COMMONWEAL June 9, 1939 What attracted most attention in the welcoming procession was the spontanetms applause of the crowd as auto~ mobiles carrying the American mission rolled past. A...
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THE STAGE
(May 1939)
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I 6 o THE C O M M O N W E A L J u n e 2, r 9 3 9 ernment may not be forced to take title to large quantities of wheat, Commodity Credit Corporation agents said. Much wheat might have been...
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THE STAGE
(May 1939)
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I32 THE COMMONWEAL May 26, 1939 I1 ..... /i The Stage & Screen J i I i I The Pope was played by John G. Nicholson, and he acquitted himself well in a difficult part. Words of praise also should...
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THE STAGE
(May 1939)
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May 19, I939 THE C O M M O N W E A L IO 5 referendums which are supposed to pass on marketing agreements. The same illusion finds embodiment in price-pooling provisions that benefit the big...
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THE STAGE
(May 1939)
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76 THE COMMONWEAL May t 2 , t 9 3 9 on the Daily Worker, the Philadelphia Record and other sources. Figures in parentheses give the numbers in last year's parade, if any was recorded. CITY...
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THE STAGE
(May 1939)
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48 THE COMMONWEAL May 5, t939 II The Stage Screen No Time For Comedy I ; 6 " ~ 1 0 TIME FOR COMEDY" is not perhaps one l "~1 of Mr. Behrman's most successful comedies, but that doesn't mean that...
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THE STAGE
(April 1939)
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A p r i l 28, r 9 3 9 THE COMMONWEAL 2 t 2. Afford an opening wedge through which enemies of the U.M.W.A. might try to break the union by means of "open shop" tactics. 3. "Provoke strikes and...
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THE STAGE
(April 1939)
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The Stage & Screen The Philadelphia Story IN "THE PHILADELPHIA STORY" Philip Barry has returned to the muse of comedy and to the days of his "Holiday." He has chosen for his chief protagonist...
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THE STAGE
(April 1939)
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665 The Stage & Screen The Hot Mikado THIS is apparently a Gilbert and Sullivan year—with additions. First we had the Savoyards, next the Federal Theatre gave us "The Swing Mikado," and now...
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THE STAGE
(March 1939)
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639 The Stage & Screen Second Spring THE WORLD premiere of Emmet Lavery's "Second Spring" was recently given by the Boston College Dramatic Society at the Majestic Theatre, Boston. That this...
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THE STAGE
(March 1939)
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609 The Stage & Screen Family Prolrait IT WOULD be idle to contend that this play by Leonore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen is not repugnant to faith, harmless though it may be to...
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THE STAGE
(March 1939)
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The Stage if Screen The Swing Mikado THE GILBERT AND SULLIVAN fanatic will no doubt find the Federal Theatre Negro "Mikado" near to blasphemy, but others will enjoy it hugely. In the first...
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THE STAGE
(March 1939)
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552 The Stage & Screen Here Come the Clowns NEITHER Philip Barry, the author, Eddie Dowling, the producer, nor the actors need hangs their heads in shame at the closing of "Here Come the...
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THE STAGE
(March 1939)
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The Stage & Screen The Little Foxes LILLIAN HELLMAN'S play is not a pleasant one, but it is about real people. It is admirably written and admirably constructed. With "Here Come the Clowns"...
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496 The Stage & Screen Mrs. O'Brien Entertains MRS. O'BRIEN ENTERTAINS" is a cartoon rather than a play, but it is an amusing cartoon. It has already been referred to as "Abbott's Irish Rose,"...
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The Stage & Screen Henry IV FROM Hamlet to Falstaff is a jump that few actors would be able to make successfully, but Maurice Evans has made it and made it magnificently. In fact Mr. Evans's...
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441 The Stage & Screen The American Way TO DEMAND that a show planned to fill the spaces of one of the world's hugest theatres should have any subtlety of expression or should answer any...
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The Stage & Screen Dear Octopus THIS is a very quiet but human little comedy in which Dodie Smith again shows that she is a mistress of the little superficial details of English upper middle...
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386 The Stage & Screen The White Steed THE IRISH theatre is today the richest in language, the most vital in theme, the freshest in characterization of the theatres of the world. There is a...
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THE STAGE
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The Stage & Screen Mamba's Daughters THIS play dramatized by Dorothy and DuBose Heyward from DuBose Heyward's novel bears evidence of its novelistic origin. It is episodic rather than...
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THE STAGE
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330 The Stage & Screen Everywhere I Roam HAD THE rest of the play equaled the first act Arnold Sundgaard and Marc Connelly's pageant of the growth of the West might have proved...
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The Stage & Screen Outward Bound T T NLIKE many revivals of recent years time has dealt vJ lightly with Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound." In fact it is as absorbing as it was that night thirteen...
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The Stage & Screen American Landscape IN INTENTION at least Elmer Rice's play is admirable. It shows too that Mr. Rice has abandoned his somewhat jejune attitude toward social questions, and...
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The Stage & Screen Here Come the Clowns IN "HERE COME THE CLOWNS," which is the dramatized version of his novel (also reviewed in this issue), Philip Barry returns to that very small baad...
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The Stage & Screen Clifford Odets IN ALL that has been written about the plays of Clifford Odets it is odd that little attention has been paid to the fact that first and foremost these plays...
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The Stage &* Screen Rocket to the Moon MR. CLIFFORD ODETS, however much the statement may offend him, has yet to show himself a dramatist of ideas. This is why his latest play is one of his...
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The Stage & Screen Where Do We Go from Here? NOWHERE is the American playwright so completely satisfying as in his depiction of collegiate male adolescence. Here his touch is sure and...
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Into a theatre in which humor is too often either vulgarity or mere physical vitality, he brings humanity and warmth. He is a master of understatement and a personality that is unforgettable. Let us...
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104 The Stage & Screen Danton's Death GEORG BUCHNER'S "Danton's Death" was originally given in New York by Max Reinhardt's German company at the Century Theatre a decade or so ago. Herr...
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76 The Stage & Screen Madame Capet THE SUCCESS of a play like "Madame Capet" is indissolubly linked with the problems of nationality and language. It is a play of separate episodes,...
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48 The Stage & Screen Knickerbocker Holiday MAXWELL ANDERSON is at his best a dramatist of intellect and imagination, as he has shown in "Mary of Scotland," "High Tor" and "The Masque...
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20 THE COMMONWEAL October 28, 1938 The Stage & Screen Abe Lincoln in Illinois UP TO the last act the great charm of Robert E. Sherwood's latest play is the charm of recognition. We all...
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644 THE COMMONWEAL October 14, 1938 standing our strength here for 300 years (and despite much good accomplished), Bourassa says we have been the most capitalistic of the provinces, known for low...
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October 7, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 615 The Coast Guard was the first agency after the Weather Bureau implicated. The Christian Science Monitor reported: An army of 2,500 coast guardsmen and scores of...
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September 30, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 589 Should we fail to maintain a free government for our children, none of the problems that our people are confronting today will matter, for it will be...
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56o THE COMMONWEAL September 23, 1938 quently find evidence of the work of priests and incorrigible believers. An editorial in the Workers' Moscow suggests more energetic anti-religious agitation...
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September 16, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL Waterfront Employers Association. This association represents the 139 companies, foreign and domestic, with shipping interests in the city. The California...
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504 THE COMMONWEAL September 9, 1938 Harry Gannes in the Daily Worker remarks: The flattering attention which the Nazis are paying to Hungary .at this moment is distinctly of the fly-and-spider...
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September 2, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 477 The Stage & Screen The Need for a New Type of fl udience I N A RECENT interview in London Mr. R. E. Sher-wood made a suggestive statement; he declared that...
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410 THE COMMONWEAL August 12, 1938 It is worth observing that many of our larger cities have a high percentage of Catholics. And there is no question that the birth rate in great numbers of our...
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300 THE COMMONWEAL July 8, 1938 strategic points. Even if such a plan were tenaciously adhered to, the fact would not be altered that the whole man power of Britain would ruthlessly be turned to...
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July I, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 273 The Stage and Screen On the Rocks T HE FEDERAL THEATRE has put its best foot forward in its presentation of George Bernard Shaw's "On the Rocks." It has done...
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244 THE COMMONWEAL June 24, 1938 Oswald Garrison Villard in the Nation comes out specifically for government ownership : I have long held that no other solution is possible and that the railroads...
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May 13, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 77 The Stage and Screen Heartbreak House I N ITS production of "Heartbreak House" the Mercury Theatre shows that it is not dedicated to stunt productions, and Orson...
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48 THE COMMONWEAL May 6, 1938 Conventions that Bloom in the Spring T HE SEASON of conventions is upon us again. The convention is a peculiarly American institution, and a good one. It forces the...
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April 22, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 727 The Stage and Screen 4 Comedy of Good and Evil DON'T let the slight smell of brimstone scare you away from "A Comedy of Good and Evil." The smell is very...
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April 15, 193 8 THE COMMONWEAL 693 Books of the Day The Alexandrian Mode Joseph in Egypt, by Thomas Mann; translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Two volumes. $5.00. IT IS a...
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666 The Commonweal April 8, 1938 The PIq and Screen All the Living A FEW years ago a producer who presented a play about lunatics in a lunatic asylum would probably have been judged a candidate...
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636 The Commonweal April I, 1938 The Play and Screen Prologue to Glory THIS is a play which will arouse both enthusiasm and regret. The enthusiasm will be caused by several things. In the first...
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6o8 The Commonweal March 25, 1938 The Play and eS°ereen Save Me the Waltz PERHAPS it is that the subject of dictators is too burning a one to submit to romantic treatment, or perhaps the...
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March 18; 1938 The Commonweal 581 The Play and Screen Amelia Goes to the Ball " AMELIA GOES TO THE BALL" is a little opera by a new composer which will probably stay in the operatic repertory....
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554 The Commonweal March 1I, 1938 The Play and Screen Wine of Choice WINE OF CHOICE" seems almost a parody of Mr. Behrman's two last plays, "Rain from Heaven" and "End of Summer." It contains the...
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524 The Commonweal March 4, 1938 The Play and &teen Murder in the Cathedral GILBERT MILLER and Ashley Dukes are to be felicitated on bringing back T. S. Eliot's play to America and giving its...
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496 The Commonweal February 25, 1938 The Ray and &teen Our Town HOW MUCH the success of Thornton Wilder's play HOW due to its stunt quality, plus admirable acting, would be difficult to...
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468 The Commonweal February 18, 1938 The Ravi and &teen Bachelor Born T T HOSE who enjoy Punch will enjoy "Bachelor Born"; many others will enjoy it who never read Punch but do read the New...
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440 The Commonweal February II, 1938 The Play and Screen Shadow and Substance AT ONCE bitter and tender, of the things of the spirit and the things of the world, "Shadow and Substance" is the...
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414 The Commonweal February 4, 1938 The Ptavj and _Screen One Third of a Nation THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT'S "Living Newspaper" has at last produced something not only interesting dramatically...
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January 28, 1938 The Commonweal 387 Hard-Boiled Sentimentalist Woollcott's Second Reader. New York: The Viking Press. $3.00. THOUGH few people, I suppose, are likely to regard Alexander Woollcott...
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386 The Commonweal January 28, 1938 The Play and Screen Father Malachy's Miracle THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the Catholic Theatre Movement that it has removed "Father Malachy's Miracle" from the B list...
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358 The Commonweal January 21, 1938 The Play and Screen Time and the Conways M R. J. B. PRIESTLEY is primarily a novelist, but of late he has been having his fling at the theatre with more or...
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January 14, 1938 The Commonweal 327 The Play and _S'ereen Tle Shoemakers' Holiday THOMAS DEKKER'S "The Shoemakers' Holiday," first acted in 1600 before "The Queenes Most Excellent Majestie on New...
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300 The Commonweal January 7, 1938 The Play and &teen Three Waltzes THOSE who pride themselves on being always up to the minute will probably not like "Three Waltzes." It has no social...
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272 The Commonweal December 31, 1937 The Play and 5creen Drama at Inish LENNOX ROBINSON'S comedy was given here several years ago by a company recruited in New York. It was played then under the...
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244 Tice Commonweal December 24, 1937 The Play and -5creen Cornelia Otis Skinner W HEN a few months ago a well-known critic chose as the four leading actresses of the American stage Katharine...
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December 17, 1937 The Commonweal 22I 7ooks Philosophy of Society Three Theories of Society, by Paul Hanly Furfey. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.00. Ends and Means, by Aldous Huxley. New...
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220 The Commonweal December 17, 1937 The Plat and Screen Barchester Towers HAD THOMAS JOB been more imbued with the spirit of Anthony Trollope and less desirous of writing something merely...
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December io, 1937 The Commonweal 191 The Play and :S°ereen The Ghost of Yankee Doodle A DEBT of gratitude is owed the Theatre Guild for bringing Miss Ethel Barrymore back to the New York stage...
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16o The Commonweal December 3, 1937 the Play and &Teen Julius Caesar I N THE production of "Julius Caesar" as the opening play of the new Mercury Theatre, Orson Welles once more proves himself...
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132 The Commonweal November 26, 1937 The Play and S'ereen Father Malachy's Miracle THE LOVERS of Bruce Marshall's delightful novel —and who has read it and not loved it ?—heard with more than...
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106 The Commonweal November 19, 1937 The Play, and Screen I'd Rather Be Right I N THE Kaufman-Hart-Hart-Rodgers musical, George M. Cohan makes President Roosevelt good-hearted but slightly...
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78 The Commonweal November 12, 1937 The Flay and Screen Amphitryon 38 W HATEVER Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne do is done with gusto, vitality and verve. They are two players unique in the...
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48 The Commonweal November 5, 1937 The Play and Screen Angel Island W HEN George Abbott produces and directs a play one may be sure that it will be workmanlike in construction and fast moving in...
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20 The Commonweal October 29, 1937, The Play and Screen The Abbey Theatre Players THE ABBEY PLAYERS are with us again, minus it is true the inimitable Barry Fitzgerald, but none the less welcome...
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The Play and Screen Susan and God I AM GOING first to speak of the acting of Rachel Crothers's latest play; not that the play itself isn't an amusing and even poignant comedy, but that where...
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(October 1937)
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The Play and Screen The Star-Wagon IT IS incredible that the Maxwell Anderson who wrote "High Tor," "The Masque of Kings" and "Mary of Scotland" could have written "The Star-Wagon," a...
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(October 1937)
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The Play and Screen George and Margaret f ERALD SAVORY'S "George and Margaret" is the VJ English counterpart to "You Can't Take It with You," even more tenuous in plot, less robust in...
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(October 1937)
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The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON King Richard II Again PRIOR to his transcontinental tour Maurice Evans is once more playing Richard II in New York before large and delighted audiences. Mr....
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(September 1937)
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Books The Elemental Life The Song of the World, by Jean Giono; translated by Henri Fluchere arid Geoffrey Myers. New York: The Viking Press. $2.50. THE DREAM of la vie sattvage—an elemental...
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The Play
(September 1937)
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The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Speech on the American Stage THE WELL-KNOWN English dramatic critic, Mr. James Agate, who has recently visited America, has returned to London and...
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The Commonweal 460 September 10, 1937 Books An Inexorable Character The Letters of Levin; translated and edited by Elizabeth Hill and Doris Mudie. New York: Harcourt, Brace and...
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(September 1937)
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The Commonweal September 10, 1937 459 The Play Mr. La-very and a National Theatre AN [INTERESTING compendium to Mr. Emmet Lavery's article on Catholic plays in The...
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(August 1937)
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August 27, 1937 The Commonweal 423 The Play and Screen Age Twenty-two IN HIS address last week at the close of the Mohawk Valley Drama Festival, Mr. Charles Coburn declared that our stars...
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(July 1937)
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July 30, 1937 The Commonweal 347 The Play and Screen The Federal Theatre Project THAT the Federal Theatre Project has been a disappointment artistically is to put it mildly; that it has...
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(July 1937)
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The Play and Screen The Players of the Year ASIDE from the Maxwell Anderson dramas and the Shakespearean revivals the season just past has been more notable for its players than its plays,...
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(July 1937)
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The Play and Screen The Season's Plays WHERE are the playwrights of yesteryear? This is a query which might well be asked of the season just passed. Of course we have had Max Anderson and...
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(June 1937)
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The Pky and Screen Richard II ICHARD II" has just closed its New York en gagement after one of the longest runs ever attained by a Shakespeare play. To those who know Shakespearean stage...
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216 The Commonweal June i8, 1937 The Play and Screen The Masque of Kings THE PERIL which a dramatist undergoes in the business of casting was never more perfectly exemplified than in...
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(June 1937)
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'Books Twenty-five Years' Reporting Dusk of Empire, by Wythe Williams. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $3.00. \ VACATION had been granted and now before l\ Wythe Williams, after five...
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(June 1937)
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i88 The Commonweal June ii, 1937 The Play and Screen Room Service ((JJ OOM SERVICE" is one of those knockabout X\. farces indigenous to America, and which Americans act, write and direct...
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i6o The Commonweal June 4, 1937 The Pky and Screen Abie's Irish Rose THOUGH "Abie's Irish Rose" ran for five years in New York the present reviewer never saw it. It was to repair this...
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Books About a Great Problem Social Security, by Maxwell S. Stewart. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.00. T^\ ISCLAIMING any intention of making a compre-L' hensive survey of the...
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(May 1937)
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132 The Commonweal May 28, 1937 The Play and Screen The Prize Plays THE CRITICS' CIRCLE has chosen Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" as the finest American play of the year, and not only Mr....
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IO4 The Commonweal May 21, 1937 The Play and Screen The Man without a Country WALTER DAMROSCH'S opera is founded on Edward Everett Hale's famous story of the man who cursed the United...
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The Commonweal May 14, 1937 The Play and Screen Without Warning WHILE "Without Warning" is far from the best mystery play seen during the last few seasons it is the only one now on the...
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48 The Commonweal May 7, 1937 The Play and Screen Babes in Arms ** ID ABES IN ARMS" is one of the gayest, most -D spontaneous musical comedies New York has seen in recent years. It...
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(April 1937)
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AN AMERICAN OLD VIC By GRENVILLE VERNON IN THE theatre as elsewhere we live in an age of prose. Economics is the god of the intelligentsia. Our critics are forever demanding that our dramatists...
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The Play
(April 1937)
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The Play and Screen Young Madame Conti THE INTEREST of "Young Madame Conti" lies not in the play itself but in the acting, and notably in the acting of Miss Constance Cummings. Miss Cum-mings,...
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(April 1937)
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Books Two Indespensable Books Damien the Leper, by John Farrow. New York: Sheed and Ward. $2.50. Saint Francis de Sales, by Michael Mutter. New York: Sheed and Ward. $2.25. BY ONE of those...
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The Play
(April 1937)
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The Play and Screen Red Harvest "RED HARVEST" is a panorama rather than a play. Though there are in it scenes fitted for the theatre, scenes both poignant and real, there is, aside from a very...
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The Play
(April 1937)
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The Play and Screen Native Ground VIRGIL GEDDES'S "Native Ground" belongs to what Walter Prichard Eaton once characterized as "the back stoop and kitchen sink school of drama." It belongs to it...
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(April 1937)
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The Play Walter Hampden MR. WALTER HAMPDEN has just announced that he has decided to end his career as a theatrical producer. If by any chance this should also mean that he intends to abandon his...
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The Play
(March 1937)
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The Play Candida IT IS a loss to English literature that George Bernard Shaw should be interested in ideas rather than in character. Ideas fade, wither, dry up, and blow away; character when truly...
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(March 1937)
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The Play The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse "THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE" may be hokum, but it is hokum so smoothly written and so skilfully acted that we believe in it. Most of the crime plays from...
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(March 1937)
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The Play The Clandestine Marriage THOUGH Cimarosa's opera buffa, "The Clandestine Marriage," has been justly denominated "second-class Mozart," its music none the less possesses charm, grace,...
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(March 1937)
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The Play and Screen Having a Wonderful Time THOUGH the characters in "Having a Wonderful Time" are not intrinsically eccentrics as they are in "You Can't Take It with You," there is a likeness...
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(February 1937)
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The Play and Screen The Masque of Kings "THE MASQUE OF KINGS," Maxwell Ander-son's third play to be given this season, while not possessing the artistic stature of his "High Tor," is a distinctly...
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The Play
(February 1937)
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The Play and Screen Maurice Evans in "Richard II" BY HIS performance of Richard in Shakespeare's "King Richard II" Maurice Evans definitely takes his position as one of the leading actors of the...
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The Play
(February 1937)
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The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Caponsacchi IT IS not difficult to understand why "Caponsacchi," the play by Arthur Goodrich and Rose A. Palmer based on Browning's "The Ring and the Book," should...
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(February 1937)
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The Play But for the Grace of God THIS is another play of the proletariat, and despite A some of the reviewers, by no means the worst one New York has seen. It has some moving bits of...
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(January 1937)
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The Play and Screen High Tor THE AMERICAN theatre has long been waiting for Maxwell Anderson to give it the play it is in him to give. He almost did it in "Mary of Scotland"; in "Win-terset" he...
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The Play
(January 1937)
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The Play and Screen Othello THE OUTSTANDING features of Max Gordon's presentation of "Othello" are the Iago of Brian Ahearn and the scenery and costumes of Robert Edmond Jones. Mr. Ahearn's Iago...
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(January 1937)
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The Play Promise HENRY BERNSTEIN'S play, even in the English version of H. M. Hanvood, is so peculiarly French that it has annoyed and baffled the average New York commentator. Yet of its kind it...
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The Play The Wingless Victory MR. MAXWELL ANDERSON has not yet written the play that it is in him to write. He has many of the qualities that go to make a great dramatist-high purpose, sincerity,...
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The Play
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The Play and Screen Days to Come HAD LILLIAN HELLMAN known more clearly just what she intended to convey, "Days to Come" would have been a more effective play. The drama is not the novel, which...
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(December 1936)
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The Play You Can't Take It with You ITS STORY is negligible, its love scenes are wooden, it offers no serious contribution to social ideas or political philosophy, and yet it is by all odds the...
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The Play
(December 1936)
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The Play Prelude to Exile MEN OF genius are having their inning during the present theatrical season, though not, alas, among the playwrights; the men of genius so far have been only the...
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The Play
(December 1936)
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The Play The Noel Coward Plays NOEL COWARD may be merely clever as a playwright, but as a symbol he has an arresting importance. He is the generation of disillusion in its essence, and at its most...
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The Play
(December 1936)
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The Play 200 Were Chosen AT LAST the American theatre has discovered a dramatist, of what might be called the proletariat, who can be fair. Mr. W. P. Conkle knows the suffering Western farmer and...
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(November 1936)
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The Play and Screen Leslie Howard's Hamlet MR. LESLIE HOWARD'S production of "Hamlet" has numerous and potent virtues, virtues which are a peculiar credit to him. It is not every Hamlet who is...
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(November 1936)
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The Play and Screen Plumes in the Dust WHAT skilful acting, sensitive direction and attractive settings can do for a play is done for Sophie Treadwell's evocation of the life of Edgar Allen Poe....
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The Play
(November 1936)
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The Play and Screen It Can't Happen Here THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT continues to be socially minded. Its latest presentation, a dramatization of Sinclair Lewis's novel of a Fascist conquest of...
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The Play
(November 1936)
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The Play and Screen Stage Door "STAGE DOOR," though it is not George S. Kauffman and Edna Ferber at their best, is an amusing, well acted and skilfully staged little comedy. It has to do with the...
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The Play
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The Play Tovarich TOVARICH" is almost an anomaly in the modern JL theatre-a truly gay play. Moreover, its gaiety is the gaiety of goodness, the gaiety of a perfectly wedded couple. And as an...
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Books
(October 1936)
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62O Books Harvard—Twenty-Five Years After Was College Worth While? A factual attempt to show the country what four years at college did to and for a group of young Americans~-The Harvard Class...
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The Play
(October 1936)
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617 The Play and Screen Gielgud's Hamlet JOHN GIELGUD'S Hamlet has proved well worth waiting for. Though it is perhaps not one of the supreme Hamlets of the stage, it is an intensely...
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The Play
(October 1936)
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590 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON White Horse Inn WHETHER or not you like "White Horse Inn" depends on whether you like that sort of show. A show it certainly is, a gargantuan one, gargantuan...
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The Play
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560 The Play and Screen Night Must Fall "NIGHT MUST FALL" is a psychological mur der play; it is also a pathological one. The modern British writer of stage thrillers tends more...
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(October 1936)
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The Play and Screen Reflected Glory R EFLECTED GLORY" is a vehicle for a star, and as such is moderately well constructed and written. At times it is more than this, as might be expected of...
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The Play
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487 The Play and Screen Spring Dance PHILIP BARRY has long been one of our most promising playwrights. His plays have nearly all possessed qualities which are rare in the native theatre....
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446 The Commonweal September 4, 1936 The Play and Screen The Savoyards Return AFTER a year's absence, a long year indeed to Gilbert and Sullivan devotees, the D'Oyly Carte Company is again...
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428 The Play and Screen The Federal Theatre Project THE ANNOUNCEMENT that the government is to continue for another year its WPA Federal Theatre Project is interesting, but will be important...
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407 The Play and Screen Injunction Granted IT IS time that Hallie Flanagan, national director of T the Federal Theatre Works Progress Administration, or Philip Barber, New York City...
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The Play and Screen Help Yourself THE FEDERAL THEATRE has at last showed that it too can be frivolous. Frankly its frivolity is more successful than its serious moments, at least when these...
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328 The Play and Screen The Negro "Macbeth" THE NEGRO performance of "Macbeth" under the auspices of the Federal Theatre has now been brought from Harlem to Broadway and is shortly to make a...
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287 The Play and Screen The Turn of the Road A DVERSITY is an admirable corrective. The years between the war and the depression saw the American theatre in the hands of the...
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Books The Decameron and Saint Birgitta White Hawthorn, by Lucille Papin Borden. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. IT IS not surprising that Lucille Papin Borden's many admirers have given...
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246 The Play and Screen The Theatre's Coming Stars IN ANY review of the acting of the theatrical season the first names coming to mind are the same as have been appearing for the last decade and...
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218 The Play and Screen The Critics' Prize Play IN MY original review of "Winterset," the play now awarded the Critics' Prize, I expressed doubts as to the desirability of poetic diction in a...
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190 The Play and Screen The Courtly Chairman THE PLAYERS' CLUB revival this year, like the two previous productions, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Seven Keys to Baldpate," dealt with the native...
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160 The Play and Screen New Faces of 1936 IN PRESENTING the second edition of "New Faces" (the first was given two seasons ago), Leonard Sill-man continues his excellent intentions by offering...
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132 The Play and Screen The Bartered Bride IT MAY well be that the performance of "The Bartered! Bride" during the first week of the popular opera season at the Metropolitan Opera House will...
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104 The Play and Screen The Pulitzer Prize Play NEITHER the Pulitzer Committee nor the New York Critics' Circle need apologize for their choices for what they believe to be the best American play...
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76 The Play and Screen Adieu a Cyrano MR. WALTER HAMPDEN has announced that with the close of the present season he doffs once and forever Cyrano's white plume. Will Mr. Hampden blame us if we...
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48 The Play and Screen Bury the Dead MOST of us have heard the old remark concerning the dog who walks on his hind legs—"he doesn't do it very well, but we wonder he does it at all." It is...
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The Play and Screen The Ballet Russe WHETHER it is that today there is no Pavlowa, Nijinsky or Mordkin, or whether it is simply the passing of our youth, the youth to which the Russian Ballet...
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724 The Commonweal April 24, 1936 The Hag and creen Gilbert and Sullivan /lgain A S WE can't have the D'Oyley Carte Opera Company with us every season, it is with heartfelt pleasure that we...
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696 T/ze Commonweal April 17, i936 time, and is supposed to result in strong support of high tariffs. The "Made in America Club, Inc.," is formed something like the Townsend movement, and...
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664 The Commonweal April t o, 1936 find...
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636 T/ze Commonweal April 3, I936 T/w P[a / and 3creen Murder in the Cathedral A T LAST the Federal Theatre Project has presented a play worth while. Oddly enough it violates all the canons of...
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580 The Commonweal March 20, 1936 Miss Joyce Carey,...
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552 The Commonweal March 13, 1936 ageous,...
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February z8, 1936 The Commonweal 497 any moral or...
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468 The Commonweal February 21, 1936 Australian...
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440 The Commonweal February 14, 1936 and the...
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414 The Commonweal February 7, 1936 Few plays of...
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386 T/w Commonweal January 3 I, I936 PlW and Screen Russet Mantle M R. LYNN RIGGS has a certain flair for the theatre, and when he grows up will unquestionably use it to better advantage than...
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356 The Commonweal January 24, 1936 The P/ag and dcreen
Mid-West aa~ ID-WEST" is a play of many admirable quali- lVl ties; it has atmosphere, a number of salty char- acters, sincerity, a...
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330 The Commonweal January 17, I936 of...
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304 The Commonweal January IO, 1936 oo/ s X T E E K Sociology and Rdigion IRELAND REVISITED, by Bernard P. Mangan, finds Ireland in a sad way, and this, Father Mangan believes, and he gives...
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January io, i936 3oI The P/a Screen every inch a woman. She has charm, she has will, she has dignity. She re-creates not only a monarch but an age. She is splendidly...
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272 The Commonweal January 3, 1936 Belgian...
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244 The Commonweal December 27, 1935 to go to Morris...
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218 The Commonweal December 20, 1935 r _r 7/...
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188 The Commonweal December 13, 1935 The...
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132 The Commonweal November 29, 1935 no liberties with...
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lO6 T/ze Commonweal November 22, 1935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Pride and Prejudice B Y ALL the rules that are supposed to govern the theatre a play founded on a novel by Jane Austen ought...
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November rs, x935 T/ e Commonwecd 79 One Child The Longest Years, by Sigrid Undset. New York: ell[red ,4. Knopf. $2.50. W ITHOUT the structure, the emotional range, the depth of meaning, of...
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76 The Commonwea[ November I5, I935 Play By GRENVILLE VERNON On Staye 66g"~N STAGE" has an interesting idea, but one which requires for its presentation both a poet and a psychologist--and...
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48 hTe Commonweal November 8, 193S die...
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November I, x935 T] e Commonweal I9 The Play and dcreen By GRENVILLE VERNON Achilles Had a Heel T HE AMERICAN theatre owes once again a debt of gratitude to Walter Hampden. He had the belief...
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642 The Commonweal October 25, 1935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Porgy and Bess THE THEATRE GUILD during the eighteen years of its existence has given nothing more interesting, or indeed...
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6l2 The Commonweal October 18, 1935 TheVlay By GRENVILLE VERNON The Taming of the Shrew TAMING OF THE SHREW" is essen- tiaily a farce, and a farce the Theatre Guild and the Lunts have made...
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October n, 1935 The Commonweal 585 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Remember the Day THIS is a most delightful play, a play tender in feeling, pure in expression, innocent in spirit, and...
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556 The Commonweal October 4, 1935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Few Are Chosen DESPITE a few obvious howlers, this play dealing with the life of novices in a convent is a worthy addition...
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The Commonweal September 27, 1935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON A Slight Case of Murder THIS is the sort of play that American playwrights do exceedingly well, and American audiences...
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September 20, 1935 The Commonweal 499 The Play and Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON Moon over Mulberry Street THE SEASON of 1935-1936 is at last open, a little later this year than a season's...
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472 The Commonweal September 13, 1935 The Play and Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON The Crusades CRUSADES" is a true Cecil De Mille film, magnificent in its ptotography and in its...
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August 30, 1935 The Commonweal 427 The Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON Alice Adams UP TO its last five minutes "Alice Adams" is all that a film should be. Its acting, its photography, its...
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The Commonweal 387 The Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON Mad Love "MAD LOVE" is an interesting picture, not because of the intrinsic merit of the story, which is a sort of an elaborated Grand...
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Book A Time of Change The Emperor Charles IV, by Bede Jarrett, O.P. New York: Sheed and Ward. $3.00. f~** HARLES IV of Luxemburg was born in 1316. He V> became King of Bohemia in 1347,...
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The Play and Screen
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August 2, 1935 The Commonweal 347 The Play and Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON The Summer Theatres THERE is both a pathos and a hope in the multiplication of the summer theatres. Twenty years...
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The Screen
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July 19, 1935 The Commonwed 307 The Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON hove Me Forever WHEN one sees the enormous audiences which attend each showing of "Love Me Forever," one begins to wonder...
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July 5, 1935 The Commonweal 267 The Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON Nell Gwyn THE STORY of Nell Gwyn is a difficult one for satisfactory portrayal on the screen. The tale of the English orange...
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June 28, 1935 The Commonweal 243 The Play and Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON Becky Sharp * \X7^ ^L JUNE 13, 1935, prove to be a turning point » » in the art of the screen? It...
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218 The Commonweal June 21, 1935 By GRENVILLE VERNON The Players of the Season SUPREME performances of acting are rare in any season, yet in looking back over the season just coming to...
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190 The Commonweal June 14, 1935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON The Young Go First THE RADICAL theatre moves on, even if it does not always move on to better things. Yet whatever plays...
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i6o The Commonweal June 7, 1935 The Pky and Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON Parade WHILE it would be perhaps going too far to say that in its last production of the season the Theatre Guild...
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134 The Commonweal May 31, 1935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON The Pulitzer Award THE AWARD of the Pulitzer prize to "The Old Maid" has apparently pleased nobody except Mr. Harry Moses, its...
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May 24, 1935 The Commonweal 103 The Play and Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON The Hook-up IT IS obvious that the radio business abundantly lends itself to satire, but as yet no play has appeared...
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May 17, 1935 The Commonweal The Play and Screen By GRENVILLE VERNON To See Ourselves HP HERE is something in E. M. Delafield's play which A reminds one of J. M. Barrie, something in the...
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Opera and the Screen
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2O The Commonweal May 3, 1935 OPERA AND THE SCREEN By GRENVILLE VERNON Signor Gatti's Farewell WHEN Mme. Kirsten Flagstad sang the two postseason performances of "Parsifal" at the...
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740 T/ze Commonweal April 0_6, 1935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Flowers o[ the Forest T HAT John Van Druten is a really important playwright is yet to be proved, but that he is an...
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7 I o T/ze Comraonwea[ April 19, 1935 Tt c Plaj By GRENVILLE VERNON Cornelia Otis Skinner I F ONE were to call Cornelia Otis Skinner the American Yvette Guilbert, one would pay each of these...
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682 The Commonweal April Iz, I93~; The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Two Communist Plays I N "AWAKE AND SING," the play of Jewish life in the Bronx, the Group Theatre recently revealed to the New...
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T/ze Commonweal _ - . . . April 5, I935 . . . . The Plag By GRENVILLE VERNON Black Pit T HOUGH "Black Pit" is not perhaps a play of the quality of "Stevedore" or "The Sailors of Cattaro, it...
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628 T/ze Commonwea[ . . March 29, _ . . I935 T/ze P/aj By GRENVILLE VERNON The American Ballet p ERHAPS this organization might more truthfully be denominated the Russian-American ballet,...
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600 The Commonweal March 22, I935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON De Luxe F OR THE second time within a week has Louis Bromfield appealed to the suffrages of the New York theatre-going...
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57 ~ The Commonweal March I5, i 9 3 5 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON dwake and Siny THE GROUP THEATRE got off none too happily . l l . in its first production of the season, Gold Eagle Guy," but...
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542 The Com ff l i _9 i . . . . . . . . . . Ju March 8, I935 ~ The P/ag By GRENVILLE VERNON Shaw at the Guild I T WOULD be idle to tell the story of '"Phe Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles,"...
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March I, x935 - - - , . . m T/ e Commonweal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : . : : : 513 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Noah W HETHER or not "Noah" will in a popular sense turn out...
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The Play and the Opera
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488 Commonwea[ February 22, I935 THE PLAY AND THE OPERA By GRENVILLE VERNON Lady Macbeth of Mzensk I T IS a pity that Dmitri Shostakovich's opera should have received only a single performance...
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458 The Commonweal February 15, 1935 The Play By GRENVILLE VERNON Fly dway Home T HE GENERAL idea and the first act of "Fly Away Home are very good indeed; the last two acts are less...
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43 ~ The Commonwed February 8, I 9 3 5 THE PLAY AND THE OPERA By GRENVILLE VERNON Elizabeth Beryner A T LAST New York has seen Elizabeth Bergner, the young German actress, whose d6but in London...
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February I, I935 T/ze Commonwed 4o3 The P/a and dcree, By GRENVILLE VERNON Laburnum Grove J B. PRIESTLEY has sometimes been referred to as _9 the one English novelist of importance who...
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The Play
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January 25, I935 CommonwM 375 The Plaj By GRENVILLE VERNON The Petrified Forest M R. ROBERT SHERWOOD after extended wanderings through ancient Rome, the Balkans and Vienna has at last settled...
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346 The Commonwea[ January I8, I935 The P@ By GRENVILLE VERNON Birthday g~]~IR'rHDAY" is one of the truest, gentlest, most " = , , ~ quietl) poignant plays of the season. It deals with a...
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318 The Commonweal January II, 193 5 The P@ By GRENVILLE VERNON Richard HI W ALTER HAMPDEN, after extended wanderings upon the road, has again returned for a short season of repertoire in New...
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January 4, 1935 Comraonwed 291 PI K By GRENVILLE VERNON Romeo and Juliet T HERE will be more than a few aged men and women who in far-away days to come will tell their grandchildren of the...
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264 The Commonweal December 28, i 9 3 4 The Plaj By GRENVILLE VERNON Valley Forge O NCE more the Theatre Guild has placed New York and the country in its debt; once more it has done the fine...
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236 The Commonweal December 2 I , I 9 3 4 The Pla and ;creen By GRENVILLE VERNON Sailors o[ Cattaro W ITH the presentation of this remarkable play the Theatre Union, Incorporated, places itself...
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Decen~ber ~4, ~934 Commonweal 2o7 The Hay By GRENVILLE VERNON Gold Eayle Guy ~I;~-'~OLD EAGLE GUY" is the Group Theatre's ~ J latest exeursi0n into the field of Americana, a field whict~ at...
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Which Way Music?
(December 1934)
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I78 The Comr, onwed December 7, I 9 3 4 WHICH WAY MUSIC? By GRENVILLE VERNON W HAT is to be the future of grand opera in New York? What likewise is to be the future of the city's symphonic...
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152 The Commonweal November 30, 1934 May I suggest that such an estimable publication as THE COMMONWEAL should see that the liturgical movement stands for dignity and beauty in worship and...
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November 3 o, i934 The Commonweal I49 The P/aj By GRENVILLE VERNON The Irish Players T HAT the players as well as the play may at times be the thing was made beautifully evident in...
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122 The Commonwea[ November 23, I 9 3 4 The P/ay By GRENVILLE VERNON The Ptough and the Stars T HE ABBEY THEATRE PLAYERS did well to open their return to New York with a performance of a play...
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96 The Commonweal November I6, I934 The By GRENVILLE VERNON L'Aiylon O NCE again Miss Eva Le Galllenne has done the fine, the beautiful thing. In her "L'Aigton" she has given a production of...
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66 T/ze Commonweal November 9, I93+ Pla r a,d do'ee By GRENVILLE VERNON H/itkin the Gates T HE case of Scan O'Casev is one of peculiar irony. Here is a dramatist who in his early works, and...
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38 The Commonweal November 2, I 9 3 4 College of the Sacred Heart Manhaffanville, New York, N. Y. The College of the Sacred Heart is under the direction of the Religious of the Sacred Heart...
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The Play
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THE PLAY By GRENVILLE VERNON Lost Horizons AN IDEA at once interesting and sound, much admirable acting with one performance of rare beauty, an excellent and smooth-running production, and...
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The Play
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THE PLAY By GRENVILLE VERNON Merrily We Roll Along TO SAY that "Merrily We Roll Along" is a really important play, or that it marks a step forward in the American drama, would be to say too much,...
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The Play
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THE PLAY By GRENVILLE VERNON The First Legion THE TREATMENT given to this poignantly moving and thoughtful play by some of the daily reviewers must have been disheartening to the author, Emmet...
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BOOKS Cynical History European Civilization and Politics since 1815, by Erik Achorn. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $5.00. THIS impressive history by Mr. Achorn is a large, complex and...
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The Play
(October 1934)
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THE PLAY Bv GRENVILLE VERNON The D'Oyly Carte Singers TALENT plus intelligence plus sincerity-that is the secret, if anything so obvious can be called a secret, of the extraordinary success of...
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BOOKS Capuchins in America A Romance of Lady Poverty, by Rev. Celestine N. Bittle, O. M. Cap. Milwakuee: The Bruce Publishing Company. $4.50. SELDOM if ever has a story been told about the...
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Pius X Choir
(May 1934)
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Pius X Choir THE CHOIR of the Pius X School of Pontifical Music made another public appearance on April 11 when it sang with the Schola Cantorum in Carnegie Hall Perotin's magnificent "Sederunt...
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April 13, 1934 THE COMMONWEAL 661 BOOKS A Pioneer of Poetry The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by E. E. I'tlnre (Mrs. Austin Duncan-Jon'es). New York : The illacmillan Company. $2.75....
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A New American Opera
(March 1934)
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498 A New American Opera THE SEARCH for an American opera which will combine musical merit with box-office appeal has been a long one, and despite the fact that Deems Taylor's "Peter Ibbetson"...
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Salome Revived
(February 1934)
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442 Salome Revived MUCH water has flowed under our musical bridges since that far-away night in 1907 when Richard Strauss's "Salome" was first revealed to the American public at the...
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Monte Carlo Ballet Russe
(January 1934)
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358 Monte Carlo Ballet Russe IN THE history of ballet in America the two most memorable occasions were the appearance of Pavlowa and Mordkine in 1909, and the arrival a number of years later...
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Books
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331 BOOKS A Pair of Piercing Eyes War Memories of David Lloyd George, IQ15-1916. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $4.00. THE SECOND volume of Lloyd George's war memories is even more...
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274 BOOKS Books for Youngsters SANTA CLAUS, if he has had a mind to, can have brought every tiny tot an interesting new book or two. Few seasons have seen more picture-and-text literature for...
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134 THE COMMONWEAL December 1, 1933 what is happening to her. Then, too, there is Joyce Clyde, who understood Martin so well as a child, and now loves what is left of the child in George. Perhaps...
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THE COMMONWEAL November 17, 1933 UNWHOLESOME FARE Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. TO the Editor: I have to keep hammering away at the hard heads of Mr. Will Hays and his movie men to make any impression on...
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470 THE COMMONWEAL September 15, 1933 eenth centuries...
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THE COMMONWEAL May 12, 1933 Stephen had loved Nina, that she was, in fact, his...
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BOOKS
Meta-History
The Modern Theme, by Jose Ortega y Gasset. New York:
W. W. Norton Company. $2.00.
DON JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET has an unusual triple
opportunity to speak: from the chair...
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The Emperor Jones
(February 1933)
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THE EMPEROR JONES By GRENVILLE VERNON THE PRODUCTION of such operas as "The Emperor Jones" makes one wonder whether our modern operas are not fast tending to the total suppression of music, at...
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BOOKS Recent Books on Literary Subjects RITICAL literature is not flourishing, but there is a good deal of activity and some fine achievement. Virginia Woolf is both a novelist and a...
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Elektra
(December 1932)
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ELEKTRA By GRENVILLE VERNON WHEN Richard Strauss's "Elektra" was first given in America it caused consternation among most who heard it and outrage among the rest. But that was long ago in a...
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BOOKS Analysis of Intolerance The Shadow of the Pope, by Michael Williams. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company. $3.00. FOUR years ago, for the first time in American history,...
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Opera in America
(December 1932)
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OPERA IN AMERICA By GRENVILLE VERNON WILL grand opera in America continue to exist? This is the question asked, though not in so many words, by the management of the Metropolitan Opera...
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July i 3 , I932 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 293 BOOKS Jewry Jews on Approval, by Maurice Samuel. New York: Liverieht, Incorporated. $2.6o. M AURICE SAMUEL thinks straight and writes well....
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272 THE COMMONWEAL July 6, 1932 BOOKS The Socialist Prophet As I See It, by Norman Thomas. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.00. T HIS volume presents a collection of essays rather than...
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lO6 T H E C O M M O N W E A L May 25, 1932 BOOKS Hawthorne's Friend Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hill, by Roy F. Nichols. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania...
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50 THE COMMONWEAL May xI, 1932 proach quite resolutely the old Greek idea of a relentless fate that pursues bad deeds to the point of ultimate retribution. One gathered, at least, that he...
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Which Way Opera?
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WHICH WAY OPERA? By GRENVILLE VERNON THE RECENT official announcement that the Metropolitan Opera House was in grave danger of closing its doors fell like a bombshell into the public...
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BOOKS On the Eastern Front The Unknown War, by the Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $5.00. IN DISCUSSING the skilful movements of the German East...
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330 THE COMMONWEAL January 20, 1932 BOOKS Poland's Heroine Jadwiga, Poland's Great Queen, by Charlotte Kellogg. New York: The Macmlllan Company. $2.50. NO ONE who comes to know the story...
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Ultra-modern
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186 ULTRA-MODERN By GRENVILLE VERNON IT WAS Sir Thomas Browne who somewhere wrote: "There are those who can see merit in the chaos of its elements and descry perfection in the great obscurity...
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October 21, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL BOOKS Dwindling Populations The Case against Birth Control, by Edward Roberts Moore; introduction by Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York. New York:...
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September 16, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 471 BOOKS Low I. Q.'s Social Control of the Mentally Defective, by Stanley Powell Davies. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. $3.00. THE PURPOSE of the author...
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326 THE COMMONWEAL July 29, 1931 it is the only institution in the United States making a broad-gaged, comprehensive, Catholic attempt at rural educational development among Negroes. It is...
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266 THE COMMONWEAL July 8, 1931 sufficient capital to start at least two strong theatrical producing groups. The twenty-five names would include only persons whose personal character and principles...
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The End of a Civilization China: A Nation in Collapse, by Nathaniel Peffer. New York: John Day Company. $3'50. THIS volume is the result of a scholarship under the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial...
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An American Poet Selected Poems of Thomas Walsh, ivith a Memoir by John Bunker, and Appreciations by Edward L. Keyes and Michael Williams. New York: The Dial Press. $2.50. OUT OF the abundance...
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Challenge to Demos The American Rich, by Hoffman Nickerson. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. MR. NICKERSON'S thesis is quite simple. It is, in a word, that what the United States...
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Making of a Diplomat Undiplomatic Memories: The Far East: 1896-IQ04, by William Franklin Sands. New York: Whittlesey House, McGrawHill Book Cotnpany. $3.00. AT T H E age of twenty-one William...
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Educating a Soul Education of A Princess: A Memoir, by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia. New York: The Viking Press. $5.00. TF I had been called upon to give a title to this remarkable J- book, I...
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Among the Fall Books
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October 15, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 611 AMONG THE FALL BOOKS Papal Infallibility The Vatican Council: The Story Told from Inside in Bishop Vllathorne's Letters, by Dom Cuthbert Butler,...
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BOOKS Individuals The Adams Family, by James Truslow Adams. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $4.00. f I "* HERE will be few thoughtful men able to come away A from this unusually able study...
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BOOKS Definitions of Freedom Liberty, by Everett Dean Martin. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $J.OO. ACCORDING to the announcement which accompanies ¦**¦ the Book of the Month Club's...
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BOOKS The Marshal of the Marne Foch: A Biography, by George C. Aston. New York: The Macmillan Company. $5.00. WHILE this is the biography of the leading military character of modern times, and...
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BOOKS Cecil Rhodes and Others Dreamers of Empire, by Achmed Abdullah and T. Compton Pakenham. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. $3.50. THE title of this book truly suggests that empire is...
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October 23, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 649 BOOKS Blake the Philosopher Blake and Modern Thought. by Denis 8aurat. New York: The Dial Press. $4.00. ~. LAKE'S peculiar usefulness in our...
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August 28, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 427 BOOKS The Wicked Street Wall Street and Washington. by Joseph Stagg Lawrence. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ~5.oo. Stabilization of...
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319 BOOKS The Springfield Aftermath Myths after Lincoln, by Lloyd Lewis. New York • Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.So. LINCOLN was assassinated on a Good Friday, a mere five days after...
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That Saint Maur founded Benedictinism in France, that Saint Placid carried the Benedictine rule to Sicily, or that Saint Augustine of Canterbury had lived according to the Benedictine rule in his...
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Among the Spring Books
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April 17, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 687 AMONG THE SPRING BOOKS ...
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Jonny Spielt Auf
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February 13, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 429 the Codex Vaticanus 3868 with the illuminated com- America, or of...
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Die Aegyptische Helena
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November 21, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 73 lived in a pleasant and commodious house on Franklin DIE...
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The Imitation of Christ, edited by Albert Hyma, from hitherto undiscovered sources. New York: The Century Company. $2.50. THIS new translation of the great Christian classic has many things in...
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A Short History of Civilization, by Lynn Thorndike. New York: F. S. Crofts and Company. $5.00. A HISTORY of civilization in some six hundred pages must of necessity be "short" and short in more...
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The Letters of Mrs. Thrale, selected with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. London: John Lane. $1.80. NOW that scholars are culling from the immense store of letters and memoirs of the...
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BOOKS In China, by Abel Bonnard. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $$.oo. THE author of this interesting book is announced as "winner of the Grand Literary Prize awarded by the...
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526 BOOKS The World's Debt to the Irish, by James J. Walsh. Boston: The Stratford Company. $2.50. THERE is always something a little ungrateful in self-congratulation at the benefits we derive...
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The King's Henchman
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492 THE KING'S HENCHMAN By GRENVILLE VERNON WHETHER or not The King's Henchman, the lyric drama by Deems Taylor and Edna St. Vincent Millay produced recently with astonishing success at the...
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386 THE COMMONWEAL February 9, I9~7 BOOKS Political and Industrial Democracy: x776-I9a6, by H/. Jett Lauck. New York: Funk and ICagnalls Company. $2.oo. ETT LAUCK does not write of...
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The Play
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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...
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Demonstrating Gregorian
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242 DEMONSTRATING GREGORIAN By GRENVILLE VERNON AN EXTRAORDINARY proof of what correct principles of musical education may accomplish was revealed on the afternoon of December 16 in the Pius...
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the Dybbuk has entered into her and speaks through her lips, one must have the peculiar sense of heating a man's voice come through the mouth of a woman. Miss Ellis encompassed this illusion with...
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BOOKS Rainbow Countries of Central America, by Wallace Thompson. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company. $5.00. Mauresques, by C. P. Hawkes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.00. Travel...
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Puccini's Turandot
(December 1926)
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December 8, I926 THE COMMONWEAL I3I of degradation under the belief that it is the true way to greatness? The point is too obvious to need laboring. Apparently what the business man who has...
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November 17, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 51 BOOKS England, by W. R. Inge. New York. Charles Scribners Sons $3.00. IN The World of William Clissold, Mr H. G. Wells makes a striking comparison...
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A Fount of Culture
(September 1926)
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426 THE COMMONWEAL September 8, 1926 tions, unfinished remarks, exclamations, to give the A FOUNT...
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The Play
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May 5, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 719 THE PLAY A PLEA FOR OPERETTA NEW YORK today is the centre of the theatrical and operatic world. In the variety of plays and operas presented, in their...
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Innovations in Opera
(March 1926)
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INNOVATIONS IN OPERA By GRENVILLE VERNON THE Metropolitan Opera Company is searching —of that there can be no doubt. Tired of being called by some a museum, by others a morgue, and by still...
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Choirs for a New Age
(March 1926)
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CHOIRS FOR A NEW AGE By GRENVILLE VERNON IT is true that eleven o'clock in the morning is out of bounds for a New York music critic. To him, as to most journalists, the hours between two...
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A Resurrection
(November 1925)
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KEEPING OUT OF COLLEGE By DON C. SEITZ ' I ^ HE newest problem of the day is how to keep our young -1 men and women out of college. They are pressing against the gates of standard institutions...
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