Word: beggars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seasons ago a stimulating comedy, hight "Beggar on Horseback", graced our stage. It was the translation by two young men, Connelly and Kaufman, of a German idea into American manners and language. They were acclaimed, justly, as play-wrights of promise and the world settled back to await more words of wisdom from them. In time, their partnership was dissolved but now one of them has broken his silence. Which leads us, not altogether inevitably, to Marc Connelly's latest play, "The Wisdom Tooth", now at the Hollis...
...cogency of which we feel to be overwhelming. Granting the dramatist's premises--a concession we are absolutely unwilling to make--the proof of his thesis is not completely convincing. And the treatment of his theme is not startlingly revolutionary. Aside from the obvious shadow of the "Beggar on Horseback", here is more than a suggestion of Barrie, and even a hint--God save the mark--of Maeterlinck. It is probably in the manner of its telling that the reason can be found for the strangely unsatisfying quality of the play. Undeniably it is written badly. There are moments when...
...legged beggar on a railroad track...
...wooden leg was an asset but the good leg was a liability. People looked coldly at the liability, passed by. One Malcolm Norris, 21, beggar, sat in a San Francisco street last week, pondered, arose, hobbled to a railroad track. He bound a rude tourniquet above his knee, thrust out the liability to convert it into an asset, as a train snorted by. The conversion failed; he died three hours later...
...quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction with strong bones...