Word: werfel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franz Werfel, author of the Goat Song (TIME, Feb. 8), sees in Maximilian the representative of a humane, idealistic principle of government. He would, with kindness, mold superstitious peasants, renegades into a nation. Napoleonic ruthlessness he forbids. Opposed to him looms the sinister Juarez, man of implacable power, one who "has never had a dream." The native leader, never brought upon the stage, is constantly felt to be the spirit that directs deadly forces against the wavering royalist's policy. Betrayed, deserted, defeated by himself, Maximilian goes to his doom, a failure in living for his cause, but strong...
Digges, Margalo Gillmore, Edward Robinson. Wrote the critics: "Herr Werfel did well to discard the technique of shadowy symbolism employed in the Goat Song. The audience responded only halfheartedly to a superb production...
...Park Avenue husband follow, to find Nola brooding on the River in Tennessee, reclaimed by showboating, done with Manhattan's fussy little critics and glib nighthawks. She gives Kim the half-million and Kim anticipates her own Manhattan playhouse, where she can give Ibsen, Hauptmann, Werfel, Schnitzler, Molnar, Chekhov, "Shakespeare, even!" "We'll call it the American Theatre," she cries, noting as she departs that Nola, tall, erect, indomitable on the bridge of the show boat Cotton Blossom, looks "like the River." The Significance. After hearing about show boats from Mr. Winthrop Ames, and rushing into the Midlands...
...German dramatists are expressionistic," he said, "and the influence of their expressionism is rapidly spreading. It has already reached England and France, and is now being introduced in the United States. Foremost among the expressionistic dramatists are Unruh Toller, Werfel, who has a play now running in New York, and Bronnen, Kaiser, and Brecht. Their aim is to make the world better. They are anti-militaristic, anti-capitalistic, anti-church, and anti-state, but by no means anarchistic...
...Franz Werfel, the author, is concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which...