Word: suzanna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suzanna and the Elders (by Lawrence Langner & Armina Marshall, produced by Jack Kirkland) tells the tale of one of the many little "Bible socialism" colonies that flourished in the U. S. in the iQth Century. This typical but fictional one, at Harmony Heights, Mass., is devoted to a sharing economy based on the sale of animal traps to the outer world, and to selective breeding designed to do for man "what has long been done for horses, swine and potatoes." The economy breaks down with the advent of a handsome inventor from Yale whose mass-production machinery gives the less...
...selective breeding strikes a snag when golden-haired Suzanna, chosen to mate with one of the elders who heavily depends on "signs" from on high, prefers instead the young inventor, who has no need of heavenly go signals...
Several seasons ago the authors of Suzanna wrote a funny play about bundling -The Pursuit of Happiness. In Suzanna they waver uncertainly between pale comments on the folly of socialist hopes in a world which loves to squat on a dime, and rather skittish comedy derived from the idea of a human stud farm...