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Died. George Sylvester Viereck, 77, prim and cocky German propagandist in two world wars, a German-born naturalized U.S. citizen who turned to poetry and journalism, worshiped strong men and machines, drew fire for editing the Fatherland magazine for German-Americans in the World War I era, and in World War II was sent to prison for almost four years on conviction of failing to register as an agent on the payroll of Germany to distribute propaganda through U.S. mails; of a stroke; in Hoi-yoke, Mass...
...here is one of Viereck's images...
That is bad enough in itself, but it is only one of his recurring (and invariably ill-chosen) breast images. I don't begrudge Viereck his two hundred years to adore each breast: I do ask that his adoring be appropriate and well-done...
...this, incident simply follows incident: his story is just one damn thing after another. Causation, results, growth, change--none of these exist in Viereck's dramatic world. And his ideas, bad as they are, do not develop from his characters and situations: rather, his play is a series of expositions of ideas, never embodied in dramatic form. The greatest sin in theatre is to be dull, and Viereck is rarely anything else...
Happily, this production has closed, and I will not dwell at length on its particular faults. Under Christine Denny's direction actors assumed one awkward configuration and then, usually with no dramatic motivation, moved to another. Many of the actors were periodically inaudible (Viereck must share the blame for this: his verse is not suited to speaking under theatrical conditions), one, at least, did not know his lines. I have no objection to letting the audience know what is happening by means of large signs, but they need not have been carried on and off by an overweight female...