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...actors and three directors of the Group form a co-operative association. Four years of hard times (the Shuberts managed to pocket a good share of the Men in White proceeds) and an identity of theatrical ideals has bound them closely together. In ability they are not evenly matched. Lee Strasberg is probably the most distinguished and experienced director of the Group. Luther & Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Alexander Kirkland had theatrical names before they joined the Group, are its top-flight actors. Kirkland's substitution for Franchot Tone is the only important change in the Group...
...present the most important man in the organization is Clifford Odets, who has revealed himself as not just an actor of bit parts, but as a playwright who can turn out the sort of thing the Group wants to do. Unconsciously he gathered material for Awake and Sing! during his 20- year residence in The Bronx. Now 28, he spent his professional apprenticeship as a spear-carrier on the road in stock and with the Guild, serving as a radio announcer in between times. He wrote Waiting for Lefty while the Group was in Boston last year. He says...
...body. The Scarpia was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and it was his big chance to add another telling impersonation to his Simone Boccanegra and his Emperor Jones. But Tibbett was no great villain. He made himself a bigger nose but his make-up in general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle with Lehmann. But his audience remembered too well the cunning of Scotti, the insinuating grace, the evil that seemed to lurk even in the folds of his cape...
Died. William Boyd, 45, saturnine stage and cinema actor (not to be confused with William ["Bill"] Boyd, younger film actor); of gastric hemorrhage, in Los Angeles. His most famed role: as Sergeant Quirt opposite the late Louis Wolheim's Captain Flagg in What Price Glory...
Died. Alexander Moissi, 54, trilingual actor (Italian, French, German) famed for his performances under Max Reinhardt; of pneumonia; in Vienna. In 1927 and 1928 he played in the U. S. in Everyman, Tolstoy's The Living Corpse, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Ghosts...