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...following article on "The Moon is a Gong," which the Dramatic Club will present tomorrow night, was written especially for the "Crimson" by H. L. W. Dana '03, lecturer on literature at the New York School of Social Research...
...John Howard Lawson's "Processional" which has been the storm center of discussion in New York. The other is a still more extraordinary play by his friend, the novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos, a play that has not yet been acted or published, called "The Moon is a Gong". This is to be presented for the first time during the coming week by the Harvard Dramatic Club and may well arouse an even more heated controversy between violent detractors and equally violent defenders. Those who would be in touch with the newest movement in dramaturgy cannot afford to miss...
Although I suspect that my own judgment of "The Moon is a Gong" may, if I see that production by the Dramatic Club, coincide with Mr. Morgan's prejudice, is it not a little hasty of Mr. Morgan to condemn the play in advance apparently on the sole ground that he does not approve of Mr. Dos Passes' opinions in Vanity Fair...
Must we assume that if Mr. Dos Passos is intellectually careless in Vanity Fair, he must be likewise in "The Moon is a Gong...
Such an article is merely one of in tellectual carelessness. To relegate the literary quality in drama to the limbo of the old fashioned is to countenance the easy tools of the theatre in place of the more difficult and exacting technique of illusionism. If "The Moon is a Gong" is of the same pattern as "Processional", with characters reduced to readily comprehensible types, conducting their impossible business to the strains of a the less jazz band, we may rest assured that the play chosen by the Dramatic Club is a slip shed evasion of the method which its author...