Abstract

Drama
Krutch, Joseph Woon | November 20, 1929 issue

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The best plays of the last five or six years have been, for the most part, written in a major key. Plays like "What Price Glory," "They Knew What They Wanted," and "Hell Bent for Heaven" were founded upon passion and violence. So too, of course, were those of dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and the American stage was distinguished from that of England or France by the bold directness with which it attacked the problems set by life in the twentieth century. Sometimes, indeed, it has seemed as though it were only here that the younger playwrights had kept their nerve, that those abroad were too afraid of being ridiculous to risk much, and that they took refuge in a delicate ingenuity from the dangers incurred by any one who strives to be important.

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DRAMA; WHAT Price Glory? (Theatrical production); THEY Knew What They Wanted (Theatrical production); O' Neill, Eugene; THEATER; UNITED States
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