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Drama
Benchley, Robert | October 22, 1930 issue

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Every one agrees that war is an ugly, stupid and wholly unjustifiable thing. People are still toying with the old doctrine that war is a tonic for the human race, the series of grim war dramas, books and talking pictures. Practically the last word in war plays, and possibly the last war play for some time, is Kenyon Nicholson's adaptation of the Helen Zenna Smith novel "Stepdaughters of War." Its purpose was again the laudable one of showing how war degrades, devitalizes, and destroys, this time in its relation to a group of young girls comprising an ambulance unit on the Flanders front. There is also some good bitter cracking at the dear ladies at home to whom the war is the first excitement they have had since their last straw-ride.

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WAR & society; DRAMA; LITERATURE; RECREATION; LAST words; HUMANITY
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