Word: electras
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There's nothing new, even in theatre critics. Mr. Benchley's commentary on "Mourning Becomes Electra" was a dirge over his own tired extremities. Was it not Sthenodes who rushed from the Theatre of Dionysus, crying "hoigar tephaloi" ("my buttocks hurt...
Today he will held tryouts for the female parts at Radcliffe, with readings from O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," and Rostand's "Cyrane de Bergerac...
Hence the prohibition on Radcliffe participating in "A Bride for the Unicorn" is very nearly parallel to a prohibition on college girls acting in one of the great tragedies; yet Vassar gives Greek plays regularly. A still closer parallel can be found in "Mourning Becomes Electra," with the extremely important distinction that while this is handled realistically, Johnston's play is symbolic. Thus it would be more absurd for Harvard Dramatic Club advisers to ban the latter than O'Neill's play...
...seemed 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...
...drama. The work of all the best known U. S. designers was represented but, more often than not, settings for their best known plays were lacking. People looked in vain for Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Jest, Mourning Becomes Electra; for Bel Geddes' Miracle or Lysistrata; for Jo Mielziner's Street Scene...