The Theatre: Eagle's Brood

In Manhattan's musty old Second Avenue Theatre last week was presented a Yiddish theatrical revival, The Wild Man. The plot deals with an aged and wealthy widower who marries a young adventuress. One by one his children are driven from or leave home until the neglected, crack-brained son murders his stepmother. But Jewish audiences, munching chocolates, were not as interested in the melodramatic antics of the family on the stage as they were in the family of Adlers —"the Barrymores of Jewry"—who were performing the piece. Gathered together for the first...

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