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HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN-A naturalistic study of Kentucky mountaineers in religious-complex throes. (Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize...
...Play may be taken as a criterion, Professor William Lyon Phelps, who acted on the original committee of selection, has given the expression new life. His statement that the choice of the committee, "The Show Off", was subsequently rejected by the Columbia Advisory Board in favor of "Hell Bent fer Heaven", while interesting and provocative of much discussion, seems in view of subsequent developments to have been hardly tactful...
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN? Fairly true and somewhat unusual picture of the Kentucky mountains in the throes of a revivalist complex...
...from a vast fund of experience that his opinion springs. For the past ten years he has not gone much to the New York theatres. Recently, this has been changed. He has been viewing the current products. He has seen such plays as The Show off, Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, The Merry Wives of Gotham, etc., and he maintains that we have in New York, at the present, the best native drama America has ever had, the best, as a matter of fact, that exists in any city in the world. Individual acting, perhaps, was better in the old days?...
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN?A naturalistic play in which religion is made to sing small in the Kentucky mountains...