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...first is that the Pops are now in full swing and that this week the Isadora Duncan dancers have been added to the program. Eva leGallienne is the other attraction, and her repertory company will give "The Cherry Orchard" tonight and Wednesday matinee: "Peter Pan Tuesday night, and "The Master Builder" Wednesday night. The engagement is only for two weeks, so plans had best be made early...
...play, but one which by many standards quite over-towers any other on view at present in New York is "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekov, consummately produced by Eva Le Gallienne's earnest little band of repertory players in the rickety old Civic Repertory Theatre on Fourteenth Street. Nanimova heads the cast of the play which depicts the slow defeat of a noble Russian family ironically treasuring its unproductive cherry orchard, only to finally see it chopped down by a newly rich peasant who buys the estate...
...stars. She played opposite Walter Hampden in his U. S. debut (The Comtesse Coquette) in 1907. Followed several years of triumph in the U. S. and on the Continent. Then cinema claimed her, then vaudeville. Miss Le Gallienne persuaded her last year to join the cast for The Cherry Orchard and she bloomed again, unfaded...
Died. Mrs. Mary A. Waterhouse, 103, of Scarboro, Me., who two months ago enjoyed an airplane flight over Scarboro and Old Orchard; in Scarboro...
...Cherry Orchard. Alia Nazimova, the most caricatured actress of her generation, returned, out of vaudeville and the cinemansions of the west, to the Civic Repertory Theatre in Eva LeGallienne's sensitive if not inspired production of Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard. The Cherry Orchard is not especially adaptable to translation; its sly and sad description of improvident aristocracy, vaguely cheerful in the face of ruin, is a little forlorn in a strange tongue and a new country, as its people are forlorn in the airy chaos of change. The Civic Repertory did far better with...