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...Plough up the meadowland, reclaim the marshes...
Last week out of the black cloud of dust which still hung over drought-stricken Kansas, Governor Alfred Mossman ("Alf") Landon sped to Washington to see about $500,000 worth of free gasoline from FERA to power 200,000 tractors to plough furrows to stop the ravages of Kansas' winds. While he was getting his gasoline he stopped long enough to mention that in May the Republicans of ten Midwestern States were planning to convene and write a platform for a bigger, better, sounder and more liberal G. O. P. Head of the resolutions committee at this meeting would...
...Jews but no less demonstrative, the city's Irish gave the Abbey Theatre players from Dublin a warm Hibernian welcome. Drama lovers in general were glad to have the troupe back after a two-year absence, but the first offering, Sean O'Casey's The Plough & the Stars, was strictly for Irish ears. Its brogue was so thick that the play remained practically unintelligible to non-wearers of the green...
Chief critical interest in The Plough & the Stars was its comparison with Mr. O'Casey's fantastic Within the Gates, also playing in Manhattan (TIME, Nov. 5). Consensus of cooler heads was that O'Casey's earlier realism had cards and spades over his later flights into the realm of theatrical fancy...
...Plough & the Stars is the power play in the Abbey's repertoire. On the light side, Lennox Robinson's Drama at Inish, seen in Manhattan last year as Is Life Worth Living?, tells the story of a troupe of serious actors who completely demoralize a seaside resort, accustomed to nothing but low comedy, with stark selections from Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev. After a fortnight, murder and melancholy break out all over the impressionable community. After seeing The Father, the local butcher throws a meat ax at his wife. After seeing An Enemy of the People, the local politico...