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; l If !.!'!.!'■■ !■!'! ...................................................ZZZTT• “Dea 1 Ends” At Capita!An unusual and starkly realistic drama r of Me In a section of New York's East [I Side, where wealth brushes poverty and k crime, will bo unfolded with the presen-h tatlon by Neman Eel Geddes of Sidney i Kingsley's dramatic success, Dead End,” £ v hlch comes to the Capitol Theatre In j. Salt Lake City ts part of its tranacon-[• tlnental tour, for one day cnly, S*.tur-l; day, May 15th, with a matinee and evening performance.Now in its second year on Broadway, where it Is stUl playing, “Dead End'* is i» based on the author's keen observation*of life in the dead end streets along New York's East Elver. The play offers a dramatic, frequently exciting and always Interesting picture of the people, young and old, who struggle to maintain life and a suggestion of decency againstoverwhelming odds.Specifically, the drama tells cf the return cf a gangster to his former haunts at the pr.mptiug of a curious sentimental Impulse, his death at the hands of the C men ai d the suggestion that such may be the fate In store for the hordes of small boys who swann through the story, ir mischief most of the, time for ‘ft lack ol decent facilities for work andplay.All of this Is told In a most impressive setting, claimed to be one of the most extraordinary ever attempted In the theatre. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, It shows tenements backed up against a luxurious apartment hotel, and la vividly realistic.The large cast of seventy Is headed by Warren Ashe, Ruth Hussey, Vincent Sherman. Juliana Taberno. Greta Crans-tedt. Donald Sharpe, Jay Adler, Mitchell Harris, Leonard Goodman. James Metcalfe, Robert Mayors, Ben Roberta, Charles Powers, and many othere. The staging la by tbe author.
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Park City Record
Park City, Utah, US
Thu, May 06, 1937
Page 5
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Patricia S.
GB 28 Jul 2019
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