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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | October 21, 1931 issue

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No contemporary dramatist has a keener ear or a shrewder eye than Elmer Rice. No matter what milieu he chooses to present in a play, one may be sure that its salient features will be recorded with an exactitude which both the camera and the phonograph might envy. In "Street Scene" he achieved a triumphant solution by introducing a simple but swift and powerful melodrama; in "See Naples and Die" he satisfied the author, at least, with some extravagant and high-spirited farce; but in "The Left Bank" (Little Theater) he has fallen short of complete success because the story he has to tell is completely uninspired, because, though it is typical enough and true enough, it permits the expected to happen with disconcerting regularity.

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DRAMA; RICE, Elmer; DRAMATISTS; MELODRAMA; PERFORMING arts; THEATERS
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