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Awake and Sing (by Clifford Odets; produced by The Group Theatre). Clifford Odets, four years ago a rank newcomer to Broadway, last week had conferred upon him the theatrical equivalent of the Order of Merit: his first full-length play was enthusiastically revived. For two reasons Awake and Sing was worth reviving: 1) it casts light on what he has written since; 2) it remains his best play...
Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera completed a Ring of the Nibelung cycle, thereby accomplishing for the ninth successive year one of the greatest mechanical labors required of the stage. The four full-length Ring operas lasted a total of 14 hours, required 18 complete changes of scene, 34 major singers, a large chorus, 80 stage hands and technicians, an orchestra of 114, ten full beards, one horse. Richard Wagner's masterpiece contains practically every theatrical trick except Eliza crossing the ice-swimming Rhine maidens, a roaring dragon, a rainbow, galloping Valkyries, a Nibelung forge going full tilt...
...strange case of the late Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, prodigiously prolific writer of mystery yarns, legend outdid the truth only a little. Legend said that he was merely the figurehead of a big writing syndicate. Witnesses swore it was true, however flabbergasting, that he dictated a full-length thriller in 60 hours, 1,200-word articles in 20 minutes, a hit play in 14 hours. To complicate the picture, he was also called a lazy man, who squandered many an hour at poker, many an afternoon at the race track...
...history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...
...before, demonstrating that radio can be a tremendous force in whipping up mass emotion. Playwright of the Year was Thornton Wilder, previously a precious litterateur, whose first play on Broadway, Our Town, was not only ingenious and moving, but a big hit. To Gabriel Pascal, producer of Pygmalion, first full-length picture based on the wordy dramas of George Bernard Shaw, went the title of Cineman of the Year for having discovered a rich mine of dramatic material when other famed producers had given up all hope of ever tapping it. Men of the Year, outstanding in comprehensive science, were...