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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | April 13, 1932 issue

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The more conservative critics of contemporary literature sometimes object that it is unnecessarily "obstetrical." Yet no one seemed particularly shocked by "Life Begins," even though that play does turn the stage of the Selwyn Theater into the maternity ward of a hospital, and even though it is concerned exclusively with the various aspects, both sentimental and medical, of the more modern methods for the mass production of babies. And when one sees a whole stage full of pregnant women one is compelled to realize that times have changed since the days when even a father was, expected to learn only by accident, or by the delicate innuendo of unwonted needlework, the interesting condition of his wife.

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LIFE Begins (Theatrical production); DRAMA; LITERATURE; PREGNANT women; INFANTS; HOSPITALS -- Maternity services
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