Abstract

Drama

This article presents information, related to several plays. Vincent Lawrence's "A Distant Drum," is a soundly constructed, intelligently written, and convincing drama. Though it involves that triangle which has been called eternal no less because of the persistence with which it constructs itself in the life about us than because of the frequency with which it is employed in drama, the situation seems fresh because the play appears to be written from the standpoint neither of conventional morality nor of that almost equally conventional romanticism which regards adultery as the special privilege of passionate souls, but from the observation of men and women whose vices and virtues never rise above a human level. Gilbert Miller's production "The Patriot," a translation from the German of Alfred Neumann, brings back to the stage a kind of tragedy which once dominated the stage but which is now seldom seen.