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...part was the enthusiastic reception of last year's Lysistrata due to the setting executed by Norman Bel Geddes. In Manhattan last week he turned his attention to staging and directing another revival, Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Geddes production lops a good-sized chunk off the original script, a move which will offend none but the most iconoclastic purist. Director Geddes has also provided an adequate cast. Raymond Massey, a cadaverous young man who brings from London fame as an actor-director-manager (The Man in Possession, Topaze, Grand Hotel) simultaneously makes his U. S. and Shakespearean debut...
...stage, Helen Hayes's greatest success was Coquette. The run of that play was terminated by a celebrated act of God?the birth of Helen Hayes's daughter?over which there was an Actors Equity suit. Her husband. Playwright Charles MacArthur (see The Unholy Garden) worked up the script of Madelon Claudet (from the stage play The Lulla-by). A jolly, practical jokester, he once wrote a speech abusing drama critics, gave it to his wife to read over the radio when it was too late for her to change. Helen Hayes is two years younger than the 20th Century...
First scene is laid in the counting house of Gideon Bloodgood (hiss!), a merciless moneychanger who is about to succumb to the panic of 1837. Although not one line of the old script has been changed, Manhattan spectators, aware of last year's Bank of U. S. failure (TIME, Dec. 22, et seq.), will believe that a modern interpolation must have been made when the collapse of the "United States Bank"? an institution of President Van Buren's time?is spoken...
...stood the acid test of Broadway for many months. It needs only half an eye to discover the causes for whatever success has accrued to the play. The Boston presentation is characterized by imaginative and intelligent treatment at the hands of both director and cast, every opportunity that the script offered for straight drama and light comedy being seized and exploited...
...Given a script written by Donald Ogden Stewart, and a cast composed of prominent Paramountites, and entertainment is in the nature of a foregone conclusion. "Rebound" has the cheery banter, the rapid repartee, the nonsensical chit-chat that is peculiar to Mr. Stewart's humor. And yet the picture has a high specific gravity, gathering body as it goes, until a climax of seriousness and deep dramatic interest is attained. "Rebound" is the story of a woman who marries the man of her love after he has been jilted by another. Follows a period of short-lived happiness, until...