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...collapse more quickly and more clinically than U.S. literature. World War I had been preceded and followed by unprecedented bursts of U.S. writing. The American Renaissance, as it was bravely called, was studded with innovators like Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, and with solidly good writers like Willa Gather and Ellen Glasgow. Their books were often fiercely critical of U.S. mores and motives. But they spoke to a whole nation, and in their writing itself there was a sense of national achievement...
ROBERT E. SHERWOOD...
...Other name playwrights have not made much news. You Touched Me!, by The Glass Menagerie's Tennessee Williams, is just a mild draw; The Next Half Hour, by Harvey's Mary Chase, did a fast fold. So did Irwin Shaw's The Assassin. Robert E. Sherwood's The Rugged Path (TiME, Nov. 19) can largely thank its star, Spencer Tracy, for so far being a box-office hit; it was panned as a play...
Playwright Sherwood is writing about the last five years in terms of Morey Vinion, the "liberal" editor of his brother-in-law's "conservative" paper. After the Nazi invasion, Morey conies out for aid to Russia and collides head-on with the paper's Red-baiting, policymaking, Mammon-serving, isolationist business manager. He chucks his job, joins the Navy, becomes the cook on a destroyer...
...elaborate itinerary but only the vaguest destination. Its hero is some times protagonist, sometimes symbol, sometimes Robert E. Sherwood, but - in spite of Actor Tracy's very natural, likable, occasionally vigorous performance-never quite a flesh-&-blood human being. One trouble with The Rugged Path is that it is not dynamic enough to avoid seeming emotionally dated. Another trouble is that Playwright Sherwood never really comes to grips with the liberal's precise role in the present world. He would have had a harder hitting play if, instead of leafing through the whole testament, he had concentrated...