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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the case of M. Pierre Weber, who has taken as personal affront the remark of M. Rostand, fils, that his play was vile and did not contain a single amusing word. Whether or not the young author's anger was aroused by the first or the second of the allegations is beside the point. In any event, his friends sought out the critic with a challenge. After deliberating during the week-end, M. Rostand made it known that he would not be one to set a precedent of killing playrights since such "recourse to arms was inadmissible...
...does not often happen, the meaning of both august orators appeared most clearly and concisely from their actual words. So vociferously was each statesman cheered by his own parliamentary audience, without regard to party, that it could be truly said: "The people of Germany are debating with the people of France." Excerpts: Stresemann: "Before all else we Germans demand the evacuation of the Rhineland. . . . The Locarno agreement assures peace between Germany and France. Both nations obligate themselves through this agreement to forego all aggressive action against each other. Whosoever asks for more security than that doubts the pledged word...
...addition to the renunciation of aggression between Germany and France, there is the English guarantee. Are the pledged word and power of England nothing to those who in France demand stronger security? Do they doubt the ability of England together with France, to fight Germany's present-day army? "It is illogical to have a Locarno treaty and at the same time see the Rhineland occupied. The Locarno agreement was meant to be the beginning, not the end, of the new era of conciliation." Briand (apostrophizing Stresemann with blazing frankness): "Locarno gives us all the security on the Rhine...
...have followed with approval the literary flowering of luckless Baron Havatny. Signers of the telegram included Gerhart Hauptmann (dean of German dramatists), Arthur Schnitzler (smartest of Austrian dramatists) and Sinclair Lewis (now residing in Berlin). They appealed to Count Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny from being sentenced merely because, in other and more confused times than these, he thought and acted other than you think...
...Significance. The play was strange, not only by reason of its length. Playwright O'Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult...