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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | April 11, 1934 issue

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Even the worst-disposed spectator at the recent "Pure in Heart" could hardly deny that the scene of the conversation in the pent-house was well written. In similar fashion "Gentlewoman," now being presented by the Group at the Cort Theater, has a rather interesting theme and occasional flashes of both shrewdness and power. But it is hard to understand how anyone as good as John Howard Lawson at his best can possibly be as bad as he is at his worst. In every one of his plays the idea, noisily pursued throughout the evening, seems to elude him at last, and after one has failed quite to understand half a dozen dramas one begins to wonder whether the author quite understood them either.

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DRAMA; PURE in Heart (Theatrical production); GENTLEWOMAN (Theatrical production); LAWSON, John Howard; LITERATURE; THEATER
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