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Whatever one may think of Mr. Channing Pollock as an artist and dramatist, one must admit that he is a very clever speaker. Yesterday, when he addressed members of the Cambridge School of Drama, he succeeded in thoroughly charming his listeners. With one sweep of his sharp eyes, he sized up his audience, judged it skeptical and slightly unsympathetic, so immediately proceeded to disarm all by frankly admitting what some have termed faults, that is, his propensities toward sentimentalism and moralizing...
...Pollock discussed the 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...
Since his writing of "The Fool" Pollock has become one of the stormy petrels of the American theatre. Wherever his plays are produced they serve to stimulate a great deal of discussion and controversy, while his lecture audiences are invariably divided among themselves in regard to his views. In general he has long been an advocate of a clean theatre and of sentiment and idealism in the drama. In upholding those views he has become involved in controversies which have made him a nationally known figure...
...Fool" ranks with "Abie's Irish Rose" and "Lightning" in box office records and outside of New York has probably created more discussion than any other play by an American author. Shortly after its run, Pollock toured the country, delivering 1063 speeches in the course of 13 months. He has been heard in many colleges and clubhouses throughout the country...
...Pollock is also author of "The House Beautiful," which opens at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston next week