Word: staging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point to others (we'll not bother to name them) who are vastly inferior to Messrs Sherwood and Howard. In short, I submit that these two playwrights may be expected to display the faults and merits (if any) characteristic of the writing that is being done for the stage today...
...example, Mr. Sherwood's "Waterloo Bridge". It is a story about an American streetwalker stranded, pending certain Continental hostilities, in London, and a nice doughboy on leave from the Front. The play is obviously contemporary, because it is about War and a tart. Of course, just as our modern stage ladies always turn out in the course of the play to be tarts, so this tart in the last act becomes a lady. (You must pardon the over-use of the word "tart" in this review, but modern literature has made "lady" or even "woman" seem so Victorian...
...there the "merry war of words" between Benedick and Beatrice retarded the play to a slower but more sparkling course. The drama was little altered from the "book version", but in the sure grasp of these players it did not suffer through the lack of extensive alterations for the stage...
...farcial talents, and James T. Powers can exercise all his vocal tricks in the delineation of comical Bob Acres. Among the others: Rollo Peters; Pedro de Cordoba; Margery, daughter of Cyril Maude; Georgette, daughter of George M. Cohan. It is a pleasant diversion, recalling a time when the stage was consecrated to mannerly gaiety, ending in a few blithe measures neatly danced by the entire cast beneath the arching trees of King's Mead Fields...
...Yale team has agreed to stage a dual debate in Cambridge and in New Haven, with the Debating Council's prohibition plan as a subject of discussion. "The plan," Hoon remarked, "has aroused more than mild discussion in New Haven, and the Daily News assures us it will be solidly behind the dual debate...