Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The whole thing is perhaps too casual for the stage, which, though always professing to hold the mirror up to nature, yammers if things are not catchily focused, neatly glued together, sharply climaxed. Morning's at Seven not only builds toward very little, but is vagrant in method, minor...
Key Largo tells of King McCloud (well played by Muni), who deserts the Spanish Loyalists when he sees their cause "betrayed" and doomed, and his own patrol about to be annihilated. To him this is riot cowardice, but the common sense of disillusionment; to his companions it still seems better...
Despite its grim situations, Key Largo is not realistic drama but a philosophical sweatbox giving the third degree to a question that has agitated every mind from Shakespeare's to the corner grocer's: Is life a mere vicious muddle, or are there things worth dying for? Unfortunately...
That Anderson is often concerned with deeply serious ideas, and has had the guts to take the hard way in the theatre, is beyond dispute. But the sound playwright who long ago wrote What Price Glory? and Saturday's Children has gradually given way to a fuzzy cosmos-gazer...
The enormous Center Theatre is a problem in itself - ideal for Ben Hur, but practically ruinous for anything else.