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Drama: Expatriates Again
Krutch, Joseph Wood | March 20, 1935 issue

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In one of tabloids the author notices the report that a play called "De Luxe" is a "society hit." Perhaps the tabloid doesn't know what "society" is, but if it actually does, then that mysterious entity is even worse off than this play about some of its members implies. For society's judgments the author have no exaggerated respect, but his loath to believe that even the best people can be taken in by anything quite so completely phony as this preposterous piece of romantic nonsense in which a group of gaudily unconvincing degenerates talk about their lost souls and wish, between drinks, that they could do "the decent thing."

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DE Luxe (Theatrical production); THEATER; PERFORMING arts; TABLOID newspapers; SOCIETIES; CULTURAL industries
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