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Drama
Marshall, Margaret | October 28, 1950 issue

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The article comments on the play "Burning Bright," directed by John Steinbeck. The play has no reality either as a primal folk concern or as a factor in individual human lives. His handling of the theme is pretentious and crude, his appeal to the universal is forced and false, as for the poetic prose in which the piece is written, it is so fancy and bad that its only effect is one of acute embarrassment. The four main characters of the play are: Joe Saul the husband, Friend Ed, Mordeen, the ever-loving wife, and Victor.

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DRAMA; STEINBECK, John, 1902-1968; PROSE poems; LIFE; EMBARRASSMENT; HUSBAND & wife
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