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Three one-act plays will be presented in the House dining hall from April 20 to 23, Neilson said. "The Proposal," by Anton Chekov, "A Strange Kind of Romance," by Tennessee Williams, and "Weatherwise," by Noel Coward, will be offered...
Where once Russia was noted for the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky; the drama of Anton Chekov; the satires of Michael Saltykov; and the sketches of Gleb Uspensky, Russia today, stifled by the evils of uniformity, has no writer of first rank...
...book is somwhat as puerile as are those of most musical comedies of the era and taste coming down to the present. But Anton Wolbrook carries off the part of an outlawed noble returned to his ancestral manor with the same dash he might have shown had he though it much mattered. Fortunately, it doesn't, because the foot-stomping music, broad comedy, handsome characters (with a few grotesque ones for conventional spice0 and universal high spirits mask the blankness of the plot. In all, there are few musicals with so much to recommend them and such a paucity...
...sizable. The townspeople paid $25 a ticket to drink to its success and take home a Doris Lee lithograph of plump bathers in a black pool. Four winning ticket holders got a good deal more: their choice of any painting or sculpture in the place. The fortunate four picked Anton Refregier's crisp figure piece, Boy Drying Rope, a lush little still life by Sigmund Menkes, a thickly sketched townscape by Eugene Ludins, and Carl Walters' ceramic dog. The dog-an inconsequential thing done perfectly-was the best...
...Gull (by Anton Chekhov) is a landmark in the modern theater: in this first of his major plays, Chekhov began to master his highly individual method and spoke in his endlessly imitated, ever inimitable tones. Even in the Phoenix Theater's disappointing revival, The Sea Gull could still be seen as a theatrical turning point- though, after 50-odd years, what it turned away from was as palpable as what it turned toward...