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Last week two distinguished theatrical estivators, Victoria Regina and Idiot's Delight, returned to Manhattan. Of sturdier stuff were six other shows (Boy Meets Girl, Dead End, Mulatto, New Faces, On Your Toes, Pre-Honeymoon) which had run straight through the heat and lassitude of a Broadway summer. Mean- time, Three Men On a Horse was entering its third season, Tobacco Road its fourth as the 1936-37 theatre year opened with the presentation of Spring Dance by Philip Barry and two Smith College alumnae. With the possible exception of Anne Nichols' Pre-Honeymoon...
...current Theatre Guild production and Pulitzer prize play-Idiot's Delight by Robert Sherwood-is a satire on (1 war, fascism and nationalism, 2 the New Deal, 3 Hollywood, 4 big business in America, 5 the Townsend Plan...
Other Pulitzer awards announced last night went to H.L. Davis for "Honey in the Horn," the best American novel, and to Robert Sherwood for his play "Idiot's Delight...
...interned travelers break out their national colors. For some unindicated reason, the hoofer and the Russian girl remain critically aloof from the passions of nationalism. However, in an emotional outburst which turns her protector toward more sympathetic arms. Irene looks Heavenward, declares: "Poor, dear God! Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything and never ends...
...Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with his old girl, Elena. In The Petrified Forest (1935), Public Enemy Duke Mantee killed Alan Squier before he had done much more than nuzzle Gabrielle. What happens to Harry and Irene in Idiot's Delight is somewhat hazy, but it looks like immediate extinction for both...