Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars," to be performed the rest of this week, concludes the engagement of the Abbey Theatre Players in Boston. Strongly resembling "June and the Paycock," it is a still grimmer indictment of war, a more tragic display of how human values are broken and lost when men die for a cause. The setting is the Easter uprising of 1916. It is again a woman who tries to salvage something from the torrent of destruction, but this time she falls and ends in madness. No one wins anything, in fact, except that...
...Philanthropist Lo headed the recently organized Shanghai Civic Association, suspected of being a Japanese-inspired group which wanted to make him mayor. Another of its members, Yung Tsung-ching, "The Flour King of China," said last week: "One cannot ride a two-headed horse and get anywhere. It is tragic, but true, that China today is virtually without a Government. During times like these citizens must fearlessly take charge of the situation in order to reduce want and suffering...
...Litvinoff was my chief. He was in time past a courageous revolutionary who had Lenin's confidence. He has shown his intelligence on a score of different occasions in world conferences. What tragic fate has overtaken him to see his best collaborators, his closest friends, disappear -to see the whole framework of his service broken and to be obliged now to approve what has been done, even to praising the executioners of his associates...
...ancient High Lama in Hollywood's Lost Horizon, Sam Jaffe is expertly repulsive and yet appealing as Nils Krogstad, the blackmailer who gets Nora in his clutches. Also from Hollywood, Paul Lukas acts with restraint and beauty the doomed Doctor Rank who faces his own death with tragic calm...
...lashes at principles stubbornly adhered to only because they are principles, the folly of romantic and aimless sacrifice, the spirit of brotherly love and humanity that fails as soon as it is put to the specific test. Even God is called to account, but He is absolved by the tragic mother's denunciation of her own species. The Catholic Church does not escape O'Casey's pen unscathed, but the implication is that its oppression is be-wailed only by those doomed to misery in any case by their own impotence...