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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...
...American drama seems to have hit upon a pattern and a rhythm all its own. Breaking away from German Expressionism, our native playwrights are developing a special national technique--a sort of radio-ragtime-phonograph-jazz. Two plays in particular illustrate this latest experimental phase. One is 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...
...against this metalic and mechanical cacophony of American noise, stands the surprising loveliness of some of the scenes between Tom and Jane. If he has not yet the theatrical skill and wit of Lawson, Dos Passos, the author of "Three Soldiers," perhaps the most important American contribution to the literature of the Great War, shows a similar courage in his social satire, in his ironic juxtaposition of social conditions in the suffering of these central characters and the raucous shouts of the prosperity boosters, on the gong of the moon
...indeed! In describing the first night of John Howard Lawson's "Processional," Mr. Don Passos, who takes the play as his model, compares the surprise of the audience to that of a maiden lady on a roller coaster for the first time. To him, the drama as we have it is the work of such a maiden lady, and he wishes to substitute for it something comparable to the obvious popular method of the roller coaster, an engine which he appears to think has been a powerful instrument for good in the development of our American culture...
...impressionistic in the modern drama. They make no attempt at realism, They, like the play, are indicative of a mood rather than of an action, and to this, they supply an adequate background. Scenery of this type proved effective in the recent Broadway production of John Howard Lawson's "Processional...