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...present reviewer had obeyed the impulse to do his stint after reading only the first part of the book, he would have damned the product utterly; he would indeed have sentenced Mr. Joad to spend his days and his nights with the study of Addison. More persistent reading of The Citizen of the World papers and less credulous perusal of the Hearst papers might have guided this critic of our national failings toward complete triumph. In such a volume as this, the only excuse for its being is found either in clever irony or in scintillating wit. Mr. Joad rarely...
...Thrasymachus, Mr. Joad deals with morals after the fashion of one salvaging a sunken ship. Only yardarms of convention rise above the water, but when Mr. Joad has raised the hull he exhibits how absurdly the masts are set in the vessel's keel, how outlandish is the gear and rigging fashioned haphazard by ancient social navigators. He is very scornful indeed of "that part of human nature which expresses itself in what is called morality," but vitiates his discussion by the employment of flippant paradox, unrepresentative facts and overstrained, somewhat splenetic deductions. For example, this very affecting statement...
Asst. Professor de Sumichrast is spirited and imposing as Joad, the High Priest. Like Mr. Wright of the French Department, Miss Cushing and Miss May, he reads his lines perfectly, and, like them also, he has the advantage of having a good voice...
...part of Joas, the young king of Juda, is played very simply by Miss Mary Coolidge. Miss May, as Josabell, interprets the part of the timid wife of Joad with a great deal of feeling...
...gates of the temple with a strong force. The day chosen is the Sabbath when croweds gather in the temple, and at this time when the people have filled the wide courts the young king is brought out to the central platform, when flanked by rows of armed men Joad places the crown upon his head and lays upon it a roll of the law of Moses...