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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | February 2, 1952 issue

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The article comments on the play "The Strike." It begins with the arrival in a psychiatric ward of a man whose wife has managed to get him sent there, and it then goes on to the point where he is finally discharged in her custody. It is as documentary melodrama that this play succeeds best. All the scenes take plate in one or another of the wards of a city hospital, and the first, which begins when the victim of attempted suicide by phenobarbital is rolled in and the machinery of the hospital begins to move, is tense and arresting.

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HISTORICAL drama; PSYCHIATRIC hospitals; HUSBAND & wife; HOSPITAL wards; URBAN hospitals; VICTIMS
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