Abstract

Drama

The younger generation of theatergoers may never have had an opportunity to see one of those wholesome native comedies in the course of which the rich young man marries a girl below his station and then discovers that what the town really needs is a garage, a soda fountain, or an up to date barber-shop. The last act always takes place in the aforesaid place of business and it generally includes three scenes. This obviously agreeable' fable, which made the fortune of several dramatists, seems to have disappeared from theater chiefly because all possible village improvements had been exploited on the stage and there remained no new businesses for the hero to go into: but those who would like to know just what it was like may gratify their curiosity by paying a visit to the play which the Theater Guild has just imported from Prague.