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...Anniversary" and "The Boor," two one-act plays by Chekhov, will be presented by the Dramatic Club Reading Theatre at 2 p.m. today at Fogg Museum...
Logan has interpreted Chekhov rather than writing a "New American Play" as the program mentions. Logan has helped the original plot only by contributing an American setting; all other changes he has made injure the play. Most obvious of his mutilations is the overdrawing of characters; in "The Wisteria Trees" he has replaced Chekhov's people with carieatures, exaggerated types which are often difficult to accept...
...true, of course, that Chekhov's people are also types: Lopakhim, a representative of the rising business class who buys the Cherry Orchard from Larbov, is a type; but in the Russian he is drawn sympathetically, this is not true of the American. Kent Smith follows Logan's transformation faithfully and with assurance...
...among literary critics has steadily declined over the past 20 years, but his stories are still read by people who like tart, sharp character sketching, mildly risque situations and ingenious twist endings. Even critics who think his work contrived and superficial will mainly agree that no other writer save Chekhov has so enormously influenced the shape of the modern short story. De Maupassant's own life story, as told in Francis Steegmuller's breezy and readable biography, seems itself like one of his more mordant sketches-flashy, melodramatic and highly painful...
...short-story form. He became, gibed a contemporary critic, "an almost irreproachable author in a genre that is not"-the cleverly contrived story, amusing and suspenseful but not quite profound or true. Generous Biographer Steegmuller speaks of De Maupassant's stories in the same breath with Chekhov's, but many readers will feel that De Maupassant never achieved the warm, quiet sympathy and seriousness of Chekhov. Without those qualities De Maupassant takes his own special niche, close...