Theatre: Bela Blau

Fine plays, like all fine art, are produced only with care and deliberation—expensive commodities. Able playwrights will not entrust their plays to financially insecure managers. But financially secure managers acquire fine plays, which in turn attract fine actors, directors.

Last week, a certain Bela Blau of Manhattan announced the formation of a theatrical corporation, temporarily called Bela Blau, Inc., which is substantial financially and in personnel. Next season the deliberate production of two or three plays is contemplated. If they are successful, a subscription system will be instituted. Out of a...

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