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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Introduction to Monodrama", Evreinov himself explains the fundamental purposes and aspects of his way of "thinking the theatre". "Among other things," writes the author", monodrama solves one of the most burning problems of contemporary art, namely, the problem of the chilling and paralyzing and distracting influences of the footlights. To abolish the footlights in reality, as some propose, does not mean yet to abolish them in our imagination; it must be done so that-the spectator, as if happening to find himself on the stage, that is, the place of action, will lose sight of the footlights; they will remain...
...Author is thought of thus...
...UNDERSTAND?Montague Glass ?Doubleday, Page ($2.00). Since Abie's Irish Rose stole his long-rumbling thunder, not much has been seen or heard of the author of Potash and Perlmutter. Somehow, the Jews presented in Y'Understand (eight short stories) seem modernized, less Semitic than their forerunners. Perhaps that is mere geography: "Blood Is Redder Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles...
...questionable occupation. Naturally it turns out that certain other females of the company, of more pious background, are not entirely innocent. There is a roaring clergyman to absorb many of the jabs of satire. A generally competent performance by a group of virtually unknown players helps considerably. The author, Lynn Starling, is a playwright of proven skill (Meet the Wife). It is unfortunate he selected such a tawdry theme...
...fact it is concocted so rudely as to seem an amateur product. The plot follows an Armenian boy from the family massacre in the old country to Ellis Island, through honest poverty and ultimate success. Made in America is said to be a kind of reverent memorial by its author (M. H. Gulesian) to his own life and liberty in this the promised land. It is as sincere in purpose as it is unskilled in workmanship...