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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appearance of war books in greater numbers on the market, the enthusiastic reception of war plays, all point to an increasing interest in this subject on the part of the public. The first revulsion of feeling which followed the world war rapidly faded, and the victorious nations still maintain their armies and still build their navies. But in all this time there has been an ever increasing undercurrent of feeling. From the Hague Conference down through the League of Nations and the World Court, clearer has come the cry for peace; and the nations of the world, weary and sick...
Scarcely two months ago, with the diplomatic conference of President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald, there was forged the latest and strongest link in the chain. With this recent development, the outlook for the future is indeed brighter; public sentiment coupled with public recognition of a need is the first requisite of an extensive reform...
...play is tomorrow, and certainly any solution but the scientific one of a cosmological problem, and one which seems as valid as this, strikes an excitement-craving audience as a lame solution indeed. But Messrs, Nichols and Browne lay no claims to clairvoyance, and would probably be the first to admit that their play is incomplete because a human creation, and that their first act is the most valuable...
...left wondering how the problem is to be solved, half hoping that it will be, yet knowing that the attainment of a god-like objectivity would first be necessary. And, sure enough, Acts II and III leave the "drame a these", and rely purely on their value as good theatre to carry them over. As theatre they go over, but what gave promise of being a problem play that would not soon be outdated by the quick solution of the problem in the world outside the theatre, turns into a rather good melodrama whose prime fault is that its personal...
...First School of Pergamum", Professor Chase, New Fogg Large Lecture Room...