Word: adamec
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Grace of God (by Leopold Atlas; Theatre Guild, producer) is a sombre chronicle, without beginning or end, about a poor family named Adamec. The father has been out of work three years. The mother scrubs and washes. The elder son ruins his health in a juvenile sweat shop and the younger shoots the sweat shop boss to get money to help his brother. As a social document But for the Grace of God has unquestionable authenticity. As a play it lacks dramaturgic heights and depths, although there are several memorable individual scenes. Example : the one in which the child workers...