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brief history OF the American National heae
Producing Managers Association under the
the personal direction OF MI
Augustus after the !ambastmg gwen II "
York critics extending to William Shakespeare s @
full comedy "As You Like IT for want OF paying patfo"as @
withdrawn stage offering OF glorious enterprise
accompanied with the admission that mas D
failure The producing managers whose eoo ., ee: ] .
object With customary
the asco the tickle and uneed puoc anu
the critic whose opinion they have long as -
the failure the OF play hey DO not au
possibility OF weakness themselves for later on IS annou
there productions Night by the Shakespeare
OF his "himsy and lackadaeal efforts as the e @
pathetic that worldly wisdom has grown
great that we feel called upon pencil through
worth while That indeed daring step ana
strong probability will excite resentment from those
poetic spirit and the philosophy OF the meah
choy jacques have helped the American National
Theater production been confined to the de-
instead the play and to charming actress
ponu vhal who did not reach the heights shkespeaean
effort should have known better than to subject
ordeal But American National iheater IN 'e
opinion nenects remote localities like Wash
ngton reflected production by an American play ana
American Shakcspeaan play might nave
overlooked had only the players all been representative
WHILE eyes Thomas and his first podue-
w retirement there hopeful eyes turning toward waiter
lampdn aud project York OF hiring theater there and
presenting all through Strangely enough his theaer
is called the National lhaer and some ioiks are beginning "
in the project phase American national heater movement
Mr. Hanpden has had valuable training IN
England He OF fine ability that not exhausted IN any par
ca line roles and intelligent student OF the
drama OF have the wane omnnda
from the critics throughout this country "here nc RANKS a
classical actors His repertoy includes fian1e'
Giles Pay Old Debts and Manson III The
House and he is still reaching out for distinction in other
p1ays intellectually admirable that will
hope may guiding spirit that will lead the real American
national theater
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are not enamod OF Washington theatrical city They
after its drawing had been exhausted elsewhere
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