Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EDUCATION BEFORE VERDUN - Arnold Zweig-Viking...
Second sight of Bury the Dead confirmed critical opinion that Irwin Shaw is a comer. His play is a passionate rewrite of Austrian Hans Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun, produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931. During "the second year of the war that is to begin tomorrow night," a burial detail of U. S. soldiers is shocked when six corpses rise from their trench grave, refuse to be interred. "Maybe," guesses one of the living dead, "there's too many of us under the ground now. Maybe the earth can't stand it no more...
Final and important departure of Mr. Shaw's Bury the Dead from Mr. Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdun is the Brooklynite's scornful refusal to lead his cadavers back to the grave as the cynical Austrian did. On the contrary, the hopeful curtain of Bury the Dead falls on men marching off the battlefields...
...Vimy Ridge, Verdun, and Neuilly...
...next war is to be the drawing card the last one was, it will have to be made more genteel. There are several trenches in the vicinity of Verdun which could well stand being done over, and the cries are growing steadily louder that the kitchen police be prevented from continuing in their present deplorable ignorance of crepes suzette. Even America will come across with less reluctance if it can forget the horror of it. When the Yanks got off the boats at Brest and step into the chromium roadsters there to meet them they will not forget the farseeing...