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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | February 6, 1929 issue

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Maxwell Anderson is certainly one of the three or four most interesting of U.S. dramatists, but there is something seriously wrong with his new piece, "Gypsy," at the KIaw Theater. Though he showed in "Saturday's Children" how convincingly he could draw contemporary characters and how persuasively he could make them speak with the living accent of the moment, he now fails dismally just where he succeeded before. "Gypsy" can be nothing unless it is a transcript from contemporary life and yet it be ,,,comes, as it proceeds, more and more completely enveloped in an air of persistent unreality.

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ANDERSON, Maxwell, 1888-1959; DRAMATISTS; THEATER; CHARACTERS & characteristics; LIFE; UNITED States
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