New Plays in Manhattan

New Plays in Manhattan

Gold Braid is an unambitious little play which has to do with U. S. Army folk quartered in the Philippines. Playwright Ann Shelby, reported to be the wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that if he can get his wife to make Julio Cortez confess that he is at the bottom of a seething Moro rebellion, he will be promoted. Unfortunately his wife and the Spaniard, who proves to be innocent, fall in love and arrange to run away, leaving the Philippines and its unsolved social problems entirely in the hands of the Major.

The Vikings was written by the late great Playwright Henrik Johan Ibsen in 1858 when he was 30 years old. Revived by Producer Richard Herndon and Actress Blanche Yurka (whose last three appearances have been as Ibsen ladies), the production was regarded by pundits as a museum piece. But Miss Yurka's beauty and talent gave it some importance.

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