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...story, she was orphaned at six (both parents died of influenza in 1918), passed around among relatives, and sent to a convent in Seattle. She went East to Vassar (class of 1933), became a Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year, and married successively an actor called Harold Johnsrud (divorce), Edmund Wilson, the novelist-critic (divorce, one son, now 16), and finally Bowden Broadwater, an occasional writer some years her junior...
...Reinhardt in Vienna in 1931 with Mrs. Ferenc Molnar as the leading lady. Three U. S. producers held rights to the show before the Shuberts had Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia in March 1933. The show failed. Next revisionists were Philip Dunning (Broadway) and Harold Johnsrud, whose version opened in Pittsburgh in November 1933 with oldtime Cinemactress Pola Negri as star. The show failed. Next year it was scheduled for another tryout in Boston. It did not come off until the Shuberts got Arthur Goodrich (Richelieu) to do a third adaptation and hired a sad little...
Brilliantly translated by Herman Bernstein and brilliantly acted by three members of the cast-Harold Johnsrud, Jules Artfeld and Antoinette Crawford-the icy despair of The Waltz of the Dogs is indeed produced according to the author's recipe. Its somewhat antiquated use of soliloquy and its droning tragedy, unencumbered by contemporary fashions in plot construction, make it a sour entertainment for play-goers drilled in a less difficult tradition. Its sadness is serious and harsh and not the relaxative kind old women...
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