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25. ProfessenBernhand
THE WEEKLF SCOTSMAN, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936.
„
By MASOUE“
Contrasts in Plays
S
GOSSIP:
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the world, that it is al play, he calls for bottles of brown ale. This, briefs; the music student, discouraged from!“ Pool' in Real Life
mreality into unreality.must be an expensive production to run, forwriting symphonies, gees in for very re-] Mention of pooling arrangements recalls K
during the evening at least two dozen bottles
und of Spring Tide“ js
munerative Chot numbers.“ and so on. Theithat fairy stories occasionally come true off
of beer are opened and the contents disposed
that of s cheap London
result is that at the end of the stipulated the stage. Take, for example, Mr St John
of by Sinclair and other members of the cast,
by a retired barmaid. She
Soon after the play begins, the boarding¬
period there is 412.000 to divide among the Ervine's bright comedy, Anthony and Anna,“
as Miss Louise Hampton
house is faced with crisis. Mrs Porret (Miss
twelve people concerned. Meanwhile the
her boarders all appeal to
atthe Whitehall Theatre. When the play was
Louise Hamptoro, announces that she is so
Mostly the boarders
young people have paired off and married, put on towards the end of last, year it locked
heavily in debt that she will have to close
ho have come to London
The play¬
like being a complete“ flop.
They all have a final meeting for the de¬
the place. The news fills the boarders with
ür way, und lind their pro¬
going public would not look at it.
dismav. for they knoy, they will find it diffi¬
claration of the dividend, which the artist,
But the members of the company thought
une decidedly sticky.
But
cult to get so much credit elsewhere.
it a good play, and offered to work fo
who still cannot sell his pictures, refuses to
artist who cannot sell his
Mr O’Hara (Mr Arthur Sinclair) comes for¬
duced salaries. The manager, Mr Mi
accept, on the ground that he never contri¬
Parrister without briefs, a
ward with a plan.
hill—who, by the way, is joint mana
out a job, a young musie
It is that the whole boarding-house should lbuted anything. But the music student is in
the production of" Spriag Tide'—offe
Hshe can write better ione¬
love with him and ne with her, and, after a
be moved to his derelict houseboat at Chis¬
Anthony and Anna“ company th
s, and a voung girl jour¬
show of reiuctance on his part, they also pair
wick, and run as a co-operative enterprise.
play as a gift, to run on a co-operati
egular job. Two elderly
off.
Each member is to put two-thirds of his
This offer was accepted, and fron
fidence trickster, and an
or her earnings into a pool for an agreed
In the final scene we are left with Mrs
moment" Anthony and Anna' began
The
a small pension.
period, at the end of which the profits.
on: so much so that it has passed its 300
Porrett,the confiuence trickster (now a
nby Arthur Sinclair, and
This
any. are to be divided among the lot.
formance, and there is every likelihood
wealthy something a the City), and Mr
he whole plav
turns out to be. in the end, a very profitable
each member of tne company will have
O•Hara. The younz, people have all gone,
arrangement for all concerned.
substantial shire of the.“ pool“ at the end
and they miss them. So Mrs Porrett puts
wers
of the run.
another Apartments“ card in her window,
ourages the young people
Miss Jessica Tandy who created the part
and sorn they have the nucleus of another
Stage Fairy Tale
on end discourages them
of Anna in this play, has left the cast to join
voung, impecunious adventurers to
The barrister, discouraged by Mr O’Hars London. to gladden their hearts and provide
The Ante-Room production in Edinburgh.
Eined to be too optimistic.
Her place has been taken by Lucile Lisle.
from writing plays, begins to obtain Jucrativelthem with an interest in life.
intervals throughout the
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Uier Anae..
25. ProfessenBernhand
THE WEEKLF SCOTSMAN, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1936.
„
By MASOUE“
Contrasts in Plays
S
GOSSIP:
StTTTNuEEELENETNNTTNNENTNNNTONEAAUNENEEHNTET
the world, that it is al play, he calls for bottles of brown ale. This, briefs; the music student, discouraged from!“ Pool' in Real Life
mreality into unreality.must be an expensive production to run, forwriting symphonies, gees in for very re-] Mention of pooling arrangements recalls K
during the evening at least two dozen bottles
und of Spring Tide“ js
munerative Chot numbers.“ and so on. Theithat fairy stories occasionally come true off
of beer are opened and the contents disposed
that of s cheap London
result is that at the end of the stipulated the stage. Take, for example, Mr St John
of by Sinclair and other members of the cast,
by a retired barmaid. She
Soon after the play begins, the boarding¬
period there is 412.000 to divide among the Ervine's bright comedy, Anthony and Anna,“
as Miss Louise Hampton
house is faced with crisis. Mrs Porret (Miss
twelve people concerned. Meanwhile the
her boarders all appeal to
atthe Whitehall Theatre. When the play was
Louise Hamptoro, announces that she is so
Mostly the boarders
young people have paired off and married, put on towards the end of last, year it locked
heavily in debt that she will have to close
ho have come to London
The play¬
like being a complete“ flop.
They all have a final meeting for the de¬
the place. The news fills the boarders with
ür way, und lind their pro¬
going public would not look at it.
dismav. for they knoy, they will find it diffi¬
claration of the dividend, which the artist,
But the members of the company thought
une decidedly sticky.
But
cult to get so much credit elsewhere.
it a good play, and offered to work fo
who still cannot sell his pictures, refuses to
artist who cannot sell his
Mr O’Hara (Mr Arthur Sinclair) comes for¬
duced salaries. The manager, Mr Mi
accept, on the ground that he never contri¬
Parrister without briefs, a
ward with a plan.
hill—who, by the way, is joint mana
out a job, a young musie
It is that the whole boarding-house should lbuted anything. But the music student is in
the production of" Spriag Tide'—offe
Hshe can write better ione¬
love with him and ne with her, and, after a
be moved to his derelict houseboat at Chis¬
Anthony and Anna“ company th
s, and a voung girl jour¬
show of reiuctance on his part, they also pair
wick, and run as a co-operative enterprise.
play as a gift, to run on a co-operati
egular job. Two elderly
off.
Each member is to put two-thirds of his
This offer was accepted, and fron
fidence trickster, and an
or her earnings into a pool for an agreed
In the final scene we are left with Mrs
moment" Anthony and Anna' began
The
a small pension.
period, at the end of which the profits.
on: so much so that it has passed its 300
Porrett,the confiuence trickster (now a
nby Arthur Sinclair, and
This
any. are to be divided among the lot.
formance, and there is every likelihood
wealthy something a the City), and Mr
he whole plav
turns out to be. in the end, a very profitable
each member of tne company will have
O•Hara. The younz, people have all gone,
arrangement for all concerned.
substantial shire of the.“ pool“ at the end
and they miss them. So Mrs Porrett puts
wers
of the run.
another Apartments“ card in her window,
ourages the young people
Miss Jessica Tandy who created the part
and sorn they have the nucleus of another
Stage Fairy Tale
on end discourages them
of Anna in this play, has left the cast to join
voung, impecunious adventurers to
The barrister, discouraged by Mr O’Hars London. to gladden their hearts and provide
The Ante-Room production in Edinburgh.
Eined to be too optimistic.
Her place has been taken by Lucile Lisle.
from writing plays, begins to obtain Jucrativelthem with an interest in life.
intervals throughout the
—
—.
—
Uier Anae..