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Krutch, Joseph Wood | October 28, 1931 issue

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It is several years now since the interest in American antiques first spread to the theater. "Fashion" led the way and then Morley's trans-Hudson group did its best to vulgarize a charming discovery. But the mode is not dead and anyone who will betake himself to "The Streets of New York,' now current at the Forty-eighth Street Theater, will be rewarded with an evening as pleasant as any which the Broadway of the moment can afford. The theater, say some, is dying of self-consciousness, and "The Streets of New York" almost persuades a rationalist to break his sword. In that age of innocence playwrights dared to be ridiculous and no one hesitated a moment before sacrificing probability to effectiveness.

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THEATER; ACTING; PERFORMING arts; MUSICALS; STREET theater; DRAMATISTS; SELF-consciousness
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