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  Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya” Revived (Chicago Tribune 1930) Chicago Tribune – Sunday, April 27, 1930 – Page 105 Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya” Revived Jed Harris, the still youthful producer who grew disgusted with the theater that made him upwards of a million dollars with such productions as “Broadway,” “Coquette,” “The Front Page,” and “The Royal Family,” came back to Broadway last week to revive Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya,” and later to inject himself into a fight against the managers who are seeking a solution of the ticket speculator business. Theater producer Jed Harris So far as the Chekov revival is concerned, it has two definite features of interest: First, it is one of the few professionally competent performances American actors have given of a Russian drama, and second, it brings the beautiful and wraith – like Lillian Gish back to the living theater after nearly twenty years absence in the movies. The play is another of those placid, leisurely studies of character and life’s frustrati...

  W-G-N To Star Lillian Gish in Sunday Drama (Chicago Tribune 1940) Chicago Tribune – February, Wednesday 21, 1940 – Page 16 W-G-N To Star Lillian Gish in Sunday Drama Cast as Wife in Sheridan’s ‘School for Scandal’ By Larry Wolters Lillian Gish, one of the brightest stars of the silent movie era and now a stage headliner, and Percy Waram, distinguished veteran of the theater, will be featured in a radio adaptation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s classic comedy, “The School for Scandal,” on the Fifth Row Center production over W-G-N and the Mutual network at 5 p.m. Sunday. The show will be presented before a studio audience. The musical setting will be provided by Harold Stokes and the W-G-N Dance orchestra. Miss Gish and Mr. Waram are appearing in Clarence Day’s comedy “Life With Father,” in the Blackstone theater. Cast as Lady Teazle. In “The School for Scandal” Miss Gish will portray the role of the mischievous Lady Teazle and Waram will play that of her blundering husband, Sir P...