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Friday night: Inheritors (Susan Glaspell...
With Scot MacDonald away, the steering committee of the Labor Party was in undisputed charge of its alert, broad-featured chairwoman, Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence, a rich barrister's daughter who would rather be Laborite than socialite. Last week Miss Lawrence heard rumblings of discord. People were beginning to say that the Prime Minister ought to be home solving the unemployment problem, not gadding about reducing navies. At such times the party executive must put up a front, loose an achievement or two as a sop to criticism. Observers divined the strategy of Arabella Susan Lawrence in the following...
Coal. A colleague and reputed confidante of Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence is Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, Minister of Labor. Heeding the grumblings of unemployed miners she summoned miners and mine owners to Downing Street, listened to both sides. After deliberation she offered the grumblers a reduction from an 8-hour day to a 7½-hour day without cutting wages, requested the mine owners to formulate a plan for efficient marketing on a national basis. As neither miners nor owners appeared satisfied Miss Minister Bondfield announced that further conferences would be in order...
...action of the play takes place in the 70's and there is opportunity for occasional satirical sallies against the Victorian morals of the day. Much of the humor is supplied by the skillful way in which Susan Blake handles the role of May van der Luyden. Among the male parts, John Marston as Newland Archer and Arnold Korff as Julius Beaufort perform creditably...
...characters Alice Fordyce Alixe Walker Tom Hamilton James Vincent Lucy Duane Frances Allen Sillerton Jackson Ian Wolfe Jessie Lefferts Brenda Dahlen Mrs. Henry Van Der Luyden Isabel Irving Mrs. Manson Mingott Katherine Stewart Mr. Henry Van Den Luyden Frank Andrews Julius Beaufort Arnold Korff May Van Den Luyden Susan Blake Newland Archer John Marston Countess Olenska Katharine Cornell The Duke of St. Austrey Robert Hobbs Anastasia Giannina Gatti Stephen Letterblair Albert Tavernier Carlos Saramonte Edouard La Roche Jean Pierre Villon Newland Archer, Jr. Henry Richards...