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tocrats who frequent the troupe's
cellar headquarters. This actor impro¬
iendle.ICIVIC THEATRE GIVES
vises a tense dramatie situation, cul¬
hut
minating in the murder of one of his
eging
THE GREEN COCKAT0O
wife's innumerable lovers, only to
eint
find thatithe situation has its coun¬
terpart in what is sometimes jocular¬
ly called real life. When, in a jealous
Eva Le Gallienne’s Company Pre¬
edap¬
Trage, he actually murders the lover,
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an aristocrat, he is, to his bewilder¬
sents Exuberant Mob Scene
Tment, hailed as a revolutionary hero.
pyedi
in Schnitzler Play.
The action is set against a back¬
nanig
ground that is colorful and lively and
gad
good piece of visual production,
ouse 1
but never manages to be very porten¬
As the first new production of its

tous, as vou have a feeling it should.
fifth season under the guidance of
In the röle of the actor, Jacob Ben¬
Eva Le Gallienne, the Civie Reper¬
Ami last night gave a performance
tygeve
in which his adherents found much
tory Theatre last night added Ar¬
to applaud. Egon Brecher was at his
thur Schnitzler's one-act play,“ The
best as the gruff host of the wine¬
BUT Green Cockatoo,“ to its bilis. The
room playhouse and the others who
piece served as a longish and tumul¬
populated the play were picturesque
tous curtain-raiser for“The Lady
of
or flamboyant, or both.
herst)
From Alfaqueque,“ whose pleasant
SABATINI EXPECTED HERE¬
wistärn Hispanie charms have graced the
programs in Fourteenth Street since
araüchin
WIII Assist In Staging HP.
earlv in 1929.
The Green Cockatoo' is a play
Steh
I The Tyrant,“ With Schwölgut.
set against the cataclysmic pan¬
progrand Gis¬
Rafael Sabatini, novelt gid play¬
orama of the French Revolution, a
bits, and
play which, in fact, reaches its ironic
wright, in whose plaw#é Tyrant“
solid iten## us
elimax as the howling mobs pour
Joseph Schildkraut Filfeturn tothe
from the storming of the Bastille
eltic)ta,
Broadway stage, Werfected to arrive
in- into the wine cellar where the action
takes place. Last night, in their en¬
here on Oet. 22#nche lle de France.
Fandj thusiasm, these howling mobs also
Mr. Sabatini ## öming over at the
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stormed Herr Schnitzler’s superior
Invitation ofC#rles L. Wagner, who
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chromo, and the result was that its
is produchg#che play, to assist in
on
sardonic and often sinister aspects
stagin
were lost in the exuberance of a
TheAwnt“ is scheduled to open
Thespians’ field day.
here ov. 12 at a Shubert play¬
Ahis The leading figure of the play is an
hougf.Mr. Wagner, who has been
actor performing with a troupe of
onsth Coast for the last five weeks
menacing vagabonds, who specialize
h
This concert activities, re¬
Mte
in the extempore drama to the de¬
###New York on Wednesday.
Was
light of the spineless, foppish a#
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un erhaest¬