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K. Hepburn Playing in
The Warrigr’s Husband

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characterization to lapse into slap-
stick. Sapiens, as Mr. Brent plays
him, is a charming young man: who
flirts violently with Antiepe and then
faints when she kisses him; he is fem-
inine, but: never effeminate. Miss
Hepburn, as Antiope, plays a young

Amazon, whose chief characteristic is

her exuberance. _ Her portrayal is
completely straight forward, and she
never resorts to any devices which
might be called theatrical. Miss Hep-
burn’s Antiope is-frank and unciviliz-
ed, but at times a little—nionotonous.
In her endeavors to be manly and
muscular she ignores the fact that
even Amazons. experience emotional
conflicts. Her playing is more effect-
ive during the first act than during
her later scenes with Theseus, when
she struggles between her natural loy-
alty to Hippolyta and her love for the
Greek. However, the character is
primarily a wild creature and Miss
Hepburn plays her with an enthusi-
asm and lack of conceit which is
more than gratifying. Perhaps the
lack. of emotion is included in the
character, for it is her charming nai-
vete which lends Miss Hepburn’s An-
tiopé her charm. Colin Keith John-
son is competent and heroic as The-
seus, and one feels that if Antiope
must be conquered, Theseus should do
it.

The Warrior's Husband is well
written and hilariously,funny. It is
_ beautifully produced with great atten-
tion to detail, and the acting is uni-
formly excellent. It is a comedy
which never gives its audience time
to collect its wits and is well worth
seeing.
seeing. S. J,



News of the New York ‘Theatres

We Are No Longer Children open-
ed hopefully last week, but the title
seemed to express the sentiments of
the audience better than the mean-
ing of the play, and the public stayed
home, so the actors gave up and went
home, too. Now everybody’s home.

Hope Williams and Beatrice Lillie
seem to be a mellowinginfluence in the
company of Too True To Be Good—
Urged on by their high principles,
the cast gave a matinee for the bene-
fit of the Working Girls’ Vacation
Society. They may be looking into
the future and fixing it up so they
can get a day off to go to Coney Is-
land, and then again it may be pure
nobility of soul.

At present a drama known as Bulls,
Bears and Asses is in rehearsal. No
oné seems to have much of a*grasp on
what it is all about, but the title ap-
plies to almost any modern. group,
ranging from the New York Stock
Exchange to Bryn Mawr May Day
Committees.

Paul Robeson, the noted negro bari-
tone, will appear in Ziegfeld’s revival
of Showboat. It is a great relief to
us to find that Mr. Robeson and not
some West End stevedore will sing
our favorite “Old Man River.” Too
often a producer finds himself a star
or two for the main roles and then
uses. the stage. crew, Tamany and
worn-out bankers to supply the sup-
port, what there is of it.

The Man Who Changed His Name
is to be the title of a melodramatic
comedy by the late Edgar Wallace.
The play has just gone into rehearsal
with Fay Bainter in the leading role.

Romney ‘Brent, who is appearing in
The Warrior's Husband, has just
written a play, entitled Mad Hopes,
which Billie Burke is to produce very
shortly.



Mr. Brent, when comment-

ing on his opus, remarked that there | Johnson Lectures on

was a part in it. which he .could play,
but he feels that-it is enough to ask
an audience to hear one of his plays |
without putting himself in it.
which means that Mr. Brent thinks |

All of | extent on the facades of modern

Modern Architecture

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his play can stand up under a little | apartment houses,

kidding, which completely shrivels up |
some of our modern classics.

The news that Leslie Howard: would |
do Romeo and Juliet next se
been shown to be avfalse alarm. Mr)
Howard intends to do a modern play |

of some sort next fall, and then tact |

kle Romeo and Juliet and perhaps
Hamlet in 1933. If the modern feel-
ing about playing Hamlet in a black
ness smacking of hell continues to
gain popularity, Mr. Howard will
probably play it by sitting in a chair
on_a dark stage and reading his lines
with a flashlight.

Plans for the production of Noel
Coward’s Design for Living are pro-
gressing steadily. Mr. Coward, Alfred
Lunt and Lynn Fontanne had been
included in the cast. when it was no-
ticed that the set included a sofa. A
special messenger was dispatched to
Alexander Woolcott with a full de-
scription of the sofa and: an estimate
of how much time he could spend on
it—as he only had to stand up to get
on and off the stage, Mr. Woolcott
accepted.



"
When President George Thomas an-
nounced that the wearing of corsages
would be barred at the University of
Utah junior prom, several girl stu-
dents obtained an injunction against
Dr. Thomas té°prevent him from stop-
ping them wearing the flowers if they
so desired — and received them to
wear. Nevertheless, when the prom
was held, only three or four girls ap-
peared with. corsages.
~ —(NSFA.)

| The New Tradition in America was

‘derivative and of late development.

\In. this tradition factories were de-
f a
destin hag | signed functionally according to in

dustrial necessities. Engineering re-

{| quirements were placed before archi-

tectural ones. The structure of sky-
scrapers introduced at this time a
hang-over from Gothic Revivalism,
with its accent on verticals. ~The ex-
terior design of these buildings often
ignored the functional steel interior,
as is the case with the Daily News
Building in“New York. Louis Sulli-
van built the first true skyscraper in
1908, on the slogan “Form follows
function.” Frank Lloyd Wright was
the most important architect in this
(tradition. Far from denying ‘steel,
he used large planes as a basis for his

dimensions. :

Mr. Johnson’s third lecture on Tues-
day, April 19, which dealt with the
International School itself, will ap-
pear in the hext issue.



A new plan. for admission is being
adopted by Syracuse College, by
which the applicants for admission
are chosen a full year in advance in
order that they may fully prepare
themselves for their course.

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