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...Wilderness! is the name of the Guild's play. Its author is Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Not only is it the first comedy sombre Playwright O'Neill has ever written, it is the first play that George Michael Cohan ever acted in (barring benefit performances) which he did not write himself...
There were rich comic moments in O'Neill's Marco Millions, the title role of which the Guild tried to get Mr. Cohan to take five years ago. In the first act of The Great God Brown, Playwright O'Neill searched an adolescent character's mind. But few playgoers would have guessed from these clues that Eugene O'Neill would ever set out to tell the Tarkingtonian tale of the Millers of Connecticut...
...study in human nature," explains Mr. Cohan. "I guess you would call it a comedy, but it's got a serious note in it. This fellow O'Neill doesn't ring the bell, he lets you pull it. The play just shows you this fellow's observation. You wouldn't call this a part I've got at all. It's a study. This fellow's got a great reading public, too -I imagine he has, anyway, and so it's got to be looked at from a literary standpoint...
From Mr. Hammond and Mr. Atkinson come the reports that "Ah Wilderness" is not what it might be, and that George M. Cohan carries the play by himself, making the evening quite pleasant. The greatest contemporary American play-wright,--so I have heard--Eugene O'Neill, has a difficult task in maintaining his reputation. When he was in Provincetown, he was comparatively unknown. He wrote slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until...
...same time the return of George M. Cohan with his "Pigeons and People" and the continuing of the amazingly effective Negro review "Hi-De-Ho," at the Wilbur, while of secondary importance, still rank high...