[Greenwich Village by Anna Alice Chapin]@TWC D-Link bookGreenwich Village CHAPTER IX 34/38
And, wise, not in their generation, but in all the generations, the Village has seized on this new vehicle with characteristic energy. The new Greenwich Village Theatre which Mrs.Sam Lewis is godmothering, is--unless many sensible and farseeing persons are much mistaken--going to be the new Voice of the Village.
It is going to express what the Villagers themselves are working for, day and night: beauty, truth, liberty, novelty, drama.
It is going, in its theatrical form, to fill the need for something concrete and yet various, something involving all, yet evolved from all; something which shall somehow unite all the scattered rainbow filaments of Our Village into a lovely texture with a design that even a Philistine world can understand. "Young, new American playwrights first," says Mrs.Lewis.
"After that as many great plays of all kinds as we can find.
But we want to open the channel for expression.
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