Abstract

Drama

Having abandoned Fourteenth Street the New York-based Theater Union has come to life again at the Bayes, which old inhabitants will remember as the roomy playhouse built on top of the Forty-fourth Street Theater in the days when there wasn't any labor stage but the ground floors of Broadway and adjacent streets were not spacious enough to hold what people had not yet learned to call bourgeois drama. Moreover, the Union has built itself a very large and impressive set for its first play in the new home; but the program assures that the policy will be the same, and one has not been long in the auditorium before the assurance has become unnecessary. John Howard Lawson's "Marching Song" is an occasionally effective but generally rather rambling and diffuse play about a general strike and why it must be won.