Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides these are three plays never before presented in this country: Vildrac's French play "The S. S. Tenacity"; Galsworthy's "The Forest," and "Hassan" by the Englishman Flecker...
...Little Minister. It was an unpleasant experience all around, this reopening of Barrie's 30-year-old candy box. It was sad for Barrie, because it showed that time has beaten those early imaginings of his. It was sad for Basil Dean, English director, because it showed (as in Hassan and Peter Pan) that he is second rate. It was chiefly sad for Ruth Chatterton, of whom Alexander Woollcott wrote: "Compared with this unhappy event [Miss Chatterton's playing], the selection of Marilyn Miller seemed nothing short of inspired." Maude Adams alone got praise...
...this strange, fanciful drama of olden Bagdad by James Elroy Flecker, the critics foamed. It has been around in printed form for some little time, several editions of it. There is within it an undeniable quality of beauty which it seemed that no stage production could stifle; but if Hassan was not stifled by the present production, at least it was made to gasp audibly...
...girls are added to the plot. The first, a harlot who rejected Hassan, came to him with power and fled when he fell, is an easy part that almost any pretty actress could portray. Accordingly the producers gave it to their most expensive player, Mary Nash. She did what she could with it. The other girl, for whom the King of the Beggars wove his plot, was entrusted wisely to Violet Kemble Cooper, who made it easily the most important role of the play. Randal Ayrton, from London, played Hassan, conventionally, correctly, completely missing the weakness, the beauty, the humanity...
...heel of the foreigner. But Mustaffa Madani would not make the concessions that might have brought him riches. So he hung on the edge of starvation, and wondered what was to become of his beautiful daughter when he had gone. Yet he would not forgive her when she married Hassan, the Dervish, who was "not of the lineage." Only when a son came-a little Shareef like himself, did Mustaffa Madani, poor and old and humble, come to them through the streets of el-Korma. All the color, the smells, the rich invective, the chill pride of North Africa stream...