Best Selling Books by Eva Le Gallienne

"A charming autobiography is 'At 33' by Eva Le Gallienne, the brief, but none the less interesting, account of the life of a young woman who has know excitement almost from her birth, and who has seen one of her great dreams come to fruition, the New York Civic Repertory Theatre. She still dreams, and is ambitious to see her theatre plans carried much further. Her book is full of stories and personalities--she knew Bernhardt and Duse both well, among many other people--and she writes with modesty and simplicity of a career that has been full of color and violent ups-and-downs." - from the column 'The Literary Landscape' by Herschel Brickell in The North American Review, Vol. 237, No. 3 (Mar., 1934), pp. 284.

In 1931, Miss Le Gallienne wrote "At 33" -- and then came the accident her hands so badly burned that there was the chance that her career might be finished. But a holiday in Europe, which included a job as a super in the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris, sent her home ready for the necessary operations and the hard work connected with the Civic Repertory Theatre on 14th Street. Her years since that time are filled with play production and fighting for an acting theatre along European lines and up to European standards of touring. Still in pursuit of the kind of theatre she dreamed of, her acting has been seen in revivals, modified versions of repertory, and vaudeville, along with a series of lectures. With the collapse of the Civic Repertory Theatre, she currently has no definite plans, and is settling into life in the countryside.

The National Repertory Theatre 1964-65 season "Hedda Gabler," by Henrik Ibsen, translated and directed by Eva Le Gallienne, scenery by Peter Larkin, costumes by Alvin Colt, lighting by Tharon Musser.