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Drama
Krutch, Joseph Wood | February 13, 1929 issue

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"Serena Blandish; or The Difficulty of Getting Married" performed by Morosco Theater is one of the more amusing comedies of the season and it is hardly the fault of the adapter, S. N. Behrman, if it is by no means as good as the novelette from which it is taken. All dramatizations are, without any exception, more or less unsatisfactory, but when they are made from any piece of fiction whose effect depends upon the style of the narrative then they are doubly so; for if the action and the dialogue are extracted from the tissue of words which envelops them they lose half their character and no longer mean what once they did.

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COMEDY; WIT & humor; BEHRMAN, S. N.; THEATER; PERFORMING arts; CULTURAL industries
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