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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | April 27, 1932 issue

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"The Truth About Blayds" is a gentle, diverting comedy, pervaded by a kind of intelligence rare enough in the theater by A.A. Milne. No one in it talks baby talk, no one wishes that he were a child again. This play better depicts physician, Kernpf's "Psychopathology." It shows a patient so thoroughly Peter-Panish in her refusal to grow up that she has suspended herself in an improvised hammock and lies quite comfortably in an authentic pre-natal position. Oliver Blayds, last of the great Victorian poets, has reached his ninetieth birthday, and by so doing has reduced all his children, grandchildren, and his in-laws as well to the status of mere guardians of the famous Blayds shrine.

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TRUTH About Blayds, The (Theatrical production); COMEDY; INTELLECT; PHYSICIANS; DRAMA; POETS
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