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...always to be only half in earnest, at once passionately sought for and scornfully east aside. In "Strange Interlude" there are poetic outbursts from Nina identifying God with herself as an all-compassionate Mother, and men as flashes in the electrical display of God. In "Mourning Becomes Electra" the dramatist seemed to drift into a completely mechanistic attitude, at least to give expression to such a concept. "Days Without End" is indeed a modern miracle play, if we consider this undercurrent attitude even in its barest outline...
...narrative form of poetry would be far better. But O'Neill has previously expressed the thoughts and feelings of his characters in a poetic prose that sounded their depths. There is only one moment, the last scene in the play, which approaches a full poetic expression of what the dramatist means. Both dramatically and poetically "Days Without End" seems to be peculiarly deficient in communication...
Died. Anatoly Vasilevich Lunacharsky, 58, Soviet Ambassador to Spain, dramatist, and longtime (1917-29) People's Commissar for Education; of arteriosclerosis; in Menton, France. Communist 100-percenters viewed him as a "liberal" and an esthete, were horrified when he held up the Moscow-Leningrad express for his actress wife, finally forced his resignation...
...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 he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, doctor, and butcher flocked to this intellectual play. Being intellectual was the fad of that period; you might surreptitiously go to see Clara Bow, but you were "passe" if you couldn...
...eight lectures to he delivered by Professor Kittredge on "Shakespeare" will discuss five of the great dramatist's plays. Professor Kittredge will speak on Friday s and Tuesday s at 8 'o'clock, beginning Friday, January...