Word: brimmerton
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Thus does Marching Song deal with a sit-down strike in an automobile town called Brimmerton. As will be evident from the partial inventory above of its dramatic materials, it is not a hastily concocted case history of the General Motors strike in Flint (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). It is a proletarian fairy tale in unrelieved black & white. Viewed from within its own wonderland it is vivid enough to enlist sympathy for the good fairies in their struggles against the hobgoblins. The play's nightmarish atmosphere is enhanced by Howard Bay's vast, sombre setting which represents...
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