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Miss Foster and Mr. Glendenning perform this very light comedy with a very light, expert touch. A Widow in Green, however, is not what Critic John Mason Brown would call an adventure in theatre-going...
...Wozzeck will be given by the Philadelphians in Manhattan Nov. 24. At its U. S. première in Philadelphia last year many a critic pronounced it the most important opera since Pélleas et Mélisande. It tells a sordid tale of murder done a woman who preferred a swaggering drum-major to a downtrodden, pasty-faced soldier. Composer Berg's score is as powerful as it is radical...
Following the performance of the one act, a discussion of the play from the point of view of the press will be given by W. E. Harris '20, dramatic critic, while Professor Albert Lovejoy, director of the Cambridge School of the Drama will speak on the play itself, and its logical development on the basis of the first...
Irving. Actress Terry first indirectly wrote to Critic Shaw about the musical prospects of a protege of hers. The correspondence continued, grew more & more intimate, but Bernard and Ellen did not meet for eight years. By that time Shaw had married and the romantic bloom had apparently withered. They did not see much of each other afterwards, though Ellen Terry later played the lead in one of Shaw's plays (Captain Brassbound's Conversion). Says Shaw: "She was always a little shy in speaking to me; for talking, hampered by material circumstances, is awkward and unsatisfactory after...
...Author- When Adeline Virginia Stephen was born in London in 1882, daughter to once-famed Sir Leslie Stephen, literary critic and freethinker, she was related to half the most scholarly families in England (some of them: Darwins, Symondses, Stracheys). When she grew up to be a tall, pale, Burne-Jonesy young lady, she and her sister Vanessa lived together in Bloomsbury. Around them soon collected the nucleus of the "Bloomsbury Group" of writers (Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey). In 1912 Virginia Stephen married Leonard Woolf; together they founded the Hogarth Press. Critics soon became respectfully aware...