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There is also an unusually fine "Holy the evening will be an utter failure; accept the play in the spirit in which it was written and in the mode in which it is likely to be interpreted by undergraduates flaccid before skillful direction, and one is sure to find the "indulgence" ample fare. "Cake" may not cause the rafters of Brattle Hall to ring with unrestrained laughter, but there are certain to be wry smiles up Cantabrigian sleeves, as this or that familiar platitude is aired in the quaint garb which Mr. Bynner has provided. Like the three-year...
Chicagoans learned that Actor John Bryan who has been playing Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice at the Chicago Civic Theatre is a grandson of the late great William Jennings Bryan. Mode of discovery: he was visited by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, whose son he is by her first marriage with William Homer Leavitt. John Bryan Leavitt was adopted by his grandfather, shortened his name...
...Chicago. To gain the aura of respectibility necessary to pass the Victorian fastnesses of the ancestral mansion, he is forced to change places with a deputy assistant mortician, and put the finishing touches on the cremation of an elderly and unwept female relative. He not only completely changes the mode of living of the niece; but even succeeds in convincing the three aunts that they still have something to live...
...entire play will be done in black and white and the costuming will be in a highly modernistic fashion. Several of the actresses have designed their own costumes so that the entire performance will be staged in a completely revolutionary mode which has only been attempted once before then in London where "The Importance of Being Earnest" was produced partially in black and white...
...only colony, Greenland, is three times as big as Denmark. Just back from an inspection trip of Greenland is nature-loving Danish Prime Minister Theodor A. M. Stauning. In Copenhagen last week he waxed enthusiastic: "Great changes are taking place in Greenland, not only economically but also in the mode of life of the inhabitants...