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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | February 18, 1939 issue

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For the third production of its subscription season the Theater Guild has chosen to offer an extremely elaborate production of Stefan Zweig's more or less Biblical tragedy "Jeremiah." According to a program note "Jeremiah" was written in Austria during the war and consciously intended as a purge for emotions which the author himself was finding intolerable. The production has been beautifully directed by Worthington Miner and staged with a lavishness which seems to imply a greater confidence in its potential popularity. Kent Smith is excellent as the prophet, Arthur Byron perhaps even better as the troubled King Zedekiah who finds it "terrible to serve a God whom no man has ever seen and who is always silent."

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JEREMIAH (Theatrical production); ZWEIG, Stefan, 1881-1942; MINER, Worthington; BYRON, Arthur; CHRISTIAN fiction; THEATER -- Production & direction
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