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HORSE IN THE MOON?Luigi Pirandello ?Dutton...
...accustomed is everybody to thinking of Pirandello as a dramatist that his publishers on the jacket of this book have inscribed: "This is a book of fiction." It is a twelve-story selection from a projected 24-volume skyscraper entitled Stories for the Year Round. Like the Thousand & One Nights, like mottoes on church calendars, there will be Pirandello tales for every day of the year, every mood, every occasion...
...occasions must be rather grisly affairs to find these tales sympathetic. Of them Translator Samuel Putnam writes: "Here were no tragedies of the adamant will in self-ruinous conflict with an ineluctable Fate. Here, rather, was a disheartened and disheartening abandonment to the stream of an ignoble destiny." Maestro Pirandello considers Europe "senile, full of animated corpses." He writes of its brownstone-fronted society as if he smelled a rat, as if the rat had been dead a considerable length of time...
...Players feel that there is a definite public which will support the production of really worth while drama in Cambridge, and are offering this series of productions to prove their convictions. The other plays in the series will include Chekoff's "Uncle Vanya," Quintero's "Fortunato," and Pirandello's "Naked." "Uncle Vanya," which will be the next production, will be played on February...
...modern drama in general, slipping easily from anecdote to fact, and from fact to fiction. He went to lengths to denounce the decadence, immorality and sophistication of the theatre. Some of the dramatists who felt the sting of his rhetoric were O'Neill, Phillip Barry, Neel Coward and Pirandello. Shakespeare, being, fortunately, of another age, escaped. Pollock, opposed to "photographic realism," crusades for virtue, idealism, sentimentalism and the "Glory and Romance of everyday life." Certainly he has realized these aims in his plays, particularly "The Fool," "The Enemy" and his latest, "The House Beautiful," which opens next week...