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London's Drama of Ideas in Winter Quarters
Archer, William | April 26, 1917 issue

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Though the drama of ideas is still hibernating and unlikely to awaken until the war is over, the drama of commerce has been fairly active since the new year; and one or two successes have been scored. The most notable, perhaps, is a fantastic play by dramatist Monckton Hoffe, entitled "Anthony in Wonderland." Its idea, in cold print, sounds elaborately foolish, but the author and the actor, Charles Hawtrey, manage between them to procure that temporary paralysis of critical judgment on the part of the spectator, that inhibition of common-sense, which is half the secret of theatrical, as distinct from dramatic art.

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THEATER; PERFORMING arts; ACTING; DRAMATISTS; SPECTATORS; AUTHORS; CULTURAL industries
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