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After playing to two record breaking houses at Brattle Hall, the Dramatic Club will take its spring production of "The Moon Is a Gong" to the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston for two performances today. The curtain will rise on the matinee at 2.15' and the evening performance will begin...
...John Howard Lawson has written an amazing review of the Premier of "The Moon is a Gong." It seems that Mr. Lawson objects to the use of the term "expressionism" in connection with the play. I do not blame him; in fact I should approve a temporary entombment of the word until we are able to see these plays in retrospect. Certainly it can not be called realism, that poetic articulation of the hero and that some what exotic and thoroughly ureal symbol of the moon. If the author sees fit to tumble houses in incoherent masses on his back...
...have read with some interest and much annoyance the numerous communications which have appeared in your columns concerning "The Moon is a Gong". Even at the expense of giving still greater publicity to their fallacies, I am constrained to deny them all! The moon has not been, is not, and never will be a gong. Having for some time concentrated in astronomy--except on foggy nights--I feel quite free to say that John Dont Passout has taken great liberties with the moon. Speaking purely on behalf of that astral body, I wish to state that howsoever much it resembles...
This review of "The Moon is a Gong", the play by John Dos Passos '16 which the Dramatic Club produced last night in Brattle Hall, was written for the Crimson by John Howard Lawson, the author of "Processional...
Here is a play crowded with entertainment value in the simplest sense of the word--a little of vaudeville in the scattered character of its events, very much of musical comedy in its rich welding of sentiment and gaiety. I am not sure that "The Moon Is a Gong" is a great play. But there can be no question that the production given it last night by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the direction of Mr. Edward Massey is extraordinarily memorable and stirring. Mr. Massey has approached this difficult production frankly from the point of view of musical comedy...