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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Currently appearing before apathetic and disinterested audiences in New York, "Temper the Wind" is a searching treatment of the lax and ineffective American occupation of Germany. It is a play with moral implications that should be of vital interest to the post-war world, yet it is received with nothing more than boredom and half-hearted approval. Written during the war years by two men speculating on the character of our German occupation in the event of an Allied victory, "Temper the Wind" is a somber prediction that has unfortunately come true. Accused of writing their play from today...
...following the difficulties encountered by the American Military government in its program of denazification, "Temper the Wind" seeks to uncover the selfish and villaninous forces at work in Germany. These groups play on the political ignorance and homesickness of the American troops to the obvious detriment of the peace. World-wide cartels operated by blind Americans and undercover Nazis destroy the work of the AMG and are only defeated by their ruthlessness that incites a murderous riot. Anti-nazi Germans are killed before they can re-educate their people, stiff-necked Nazis, recently shorn of their Charlie Chaplin mustaches, slither...
...production. Missed cues and German accents heavy to the point of double talk give the play a certain ineptitude that has alienated critics and audiences alike, but does not detract from the great moral issues portrayed. Despite the lack of technique on the part of the cast, "Temper the Wind" brings the significant problems of today to the American stage for the first time since the end of the war. The authors have something important to say, something that greatly concerns Americans and deserves their attention beyond a nearly empty house. If a play dealing with our ability to rebuild...
Temper the Wind is extremely uneven playwriting and not quite forceful enough theater. It has too many characters to keep it tidy or taut; its clash of viewpoints never quite boils up into drama; its culminating melodrama is clumsily handled and unexciting. But it remains an honest approach to a vital subject. And if it sounds sharp warnings, it offers no smug answers; it is evidence given in the witness box, rather than a resounding verdict handed down from the bench...
...Cooled (Sept.). In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest Medley begged police to reroute planes that flew low over his house, complained that the wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers...