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...Homeric (White Star)?Lady Diana Manners and her husband Alfred Duff Cooper; Cosmo Hamilton, dramatist and novelist, brother of Sir Philip Gibbs; George F. Baker, famed banker; Eberhard Faber (lead pencils) ; May Wilson Preston, illustrator...
...Burrell '24, who edited the translation, has brought the play to us in speech that is at once deft and forcible. He knows how to talk in terms of the theatre--and that is not to talk too much. The subtlety of the dramatist is never shrouded by the verbosity of the translator, and it is not the latter's fault that you are at first plunged into the long-winded legal history of the famous Gregor vs. Pruss case. However, you soon emerge with the blessed realization that it doesn't matter a whit if you did not follow...
Capek Powerful Dramatist...
...over the rather weak ending of the first act into a second act that is logically and dramatically satisfying. Out of the shadow of the bare stage the characters move into the light which surrounds the world-weary opera singer. She, herself, is removed from reality by the dramatist, but these men and women who come into contact with her are very real. Capek projects them with a tenuous sort of power, following up pathos or amusement with a modern chord of dissonance which startles, arrests, and then intrigues the imagination. The ending of the act is fine...
...last act is worth a column in itself. This is what the artful dramatist has been building for all the time. Space forbids a discussion here; besides it is not quite fair to reveal it. It contains the best and the worst of the play. Besides one or two seemingly curious contradictions of character, there is a showy device of dramatic technique in the inquisition scene which seems in poor taste,-- a dissent from good dramaturgy to bad artifice, so it seems to me. You may not agree...