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Second sight of Bury the Dead confirmed critical opinion that Irwin Shaw is a comer. His play is a passionate rewrite of Austrian Hans Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun, produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931. During "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night," a burial detail of U. S. soldiers is shocked when six corpses rise from their trench grave, refuse to be interred. "Maybe," guesses one of the living dead, "there's too many of us under the ground now. Maybe the earth can't stand it no more...
Final and important departure of Mr. Shaw's Bury the Dead from Mr. Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun is the Brooklynite's scornful refusal to lead his cadavers back to the grave as the cynical Austrian did. On the contrary, the hopeful curtain of Bury the Dead falls on men marching off the battlefields...
Author of this startling play is the late Hans Chlumberg, an Austrian cavalryman during the War. On the night that Miracle at Verdun opened in Leipzig last October, he sank into unconsciousness, died without knowing of the show's success. The son of a military man, a one-time military student himself, he loathed war, wrote his play in protest against it. The Guild, under Director Herbert J. Biberman, has given Miracle at Verdun a skillful presentation. It is overlong (three hours), lets one down a little at the end. but is a tremendously interesting and audacious piece...
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