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From: The American Dream Since 1918: An Informal History[Mr. Sherwood] proved that he could invent for himself a form as thoroughly American as it was novel, and he produced with great success two plays [The Petrified Forest and Idiot's Delight] of which the second at least,...
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From: The Nation[(essay date 1933) Krutch was one of America's most respected literary and drama critics. In the following review, he offers a generally positive assessment of the essay collectionProblèmes Européens, praising Romains as...
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From: The Nation[Krutch is widely regarded as one of America's most respected literary and drama critics. A conservative and idealistic thinker, he was a consistent proponent of human dignity and the preeminence of literary art. His...
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From: The Nation[Bury the Dead] is based on a conceit of originality and power. Six men just laid in their new dug graves by a weary detachment of fellow- soldiers rise slowly to their feet and with quiet persistence refuse to submit to...
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From: Sewanee Review[(essay date October 1917) In the following essay, Krutch maintains that Boker deserves a far more prominent place in the history of American drama than is generally accorded him.] When the history of the American...
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From: New York Herald Tribune Books[Krutch is one of America's most respected literary and drama critics. A conservative and idealistic thinker, he was a proponent of human dignity and the preeminence of literary art; his literary criticism is...
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From: The Nation[Krutch is widely regarded as one of America's most respected literary and drama critics. Noteworthy among his works are The American Drama since 1918 (1939), in which he analyzed the most important dramas of the 1920s...
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From: The Nation[Krutch is widely regarded as one of America's most respected literary and drama critics. Noteworthy among his works are The American Drama since 1918 (1939), in which he analyzed the most important dramas of the 1920s...
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From: The NationIt is unfair, of course, but anyone as good as George S. Kaufman must pay the penalty for not being a great deal better. He has paid it before and he will have to pay it again in connection with Stage Door ..., which he...
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From: the NationExcept for a dinner intermission Eugene O'Neill's new trilogy, Mourning Becomes Electra (Guild Theater), runs from five o' clock in the afternoon until about eleven-fifteen in the evening. Seldom if ever has any play...
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From: The NationMr. Green is coming of age at last, and to say that his play [The House of Connelly] is by far the most interesting presented this season on Broadway would be to say much too little. As a whole it is very, very good; in...
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From: The NationMorning Star is by the Anglo-Welsh actor Emlyn Williams, who was first introduced to New York as the author of the excellent theatrical thriller called Night Must Fall and who later revealed his more earnest side in The...
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From: Nation[(review date 3 November 1951) In the following review of Michael MacOwan's New York production of A Sleep of Prisoners, Krutch excoriates the play, which, he writes, "goes to extreme lengths to defy comprehension not...
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From: The Nation[In the following excerpt, Krutch considers The Corn Is Green formulaic, but acknowledges that the play is not "as merely theatrical as it might easily be."] [The plot of The Corn Is Green is] concerned with the...
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From: The Nation, New York[In the following essay, Krutch reviews Harvey.] Even before it opened at the Forty-eighth Street Theater most interested parties already knew that Harvey was a play about a man whose best friend is a white rabbit...
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From: The NationThis unusual novel [The Asiatics]—if novel it is—begins and ends without explanation. At the top of page 1 the narrator is walking down the streets of Beirut inviting his soul; on page 423 he takes abrupt leave, “feeling...
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From: The NationMoss Hart's Light Up the Sky is a great deal more entertaining than I, for one, expected it to be. The preliminary hoopla—of which there was considerable—centered around its allegedly daring topicality and the promise...
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From: Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage[(review date 1926) In the following review originally published in the Nation in 1926, Krutch calls "Two or Three Graces" a "grotesquely tragic story" that for all its ironical detachment is essentially concerned with...
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From: The Nation[Krutch is widely regarded as one of America's most respected literary and drama critics. Noteworthy among his works are The American Drama since 1918 (1939), which analyzes the most important dramas of the 1920s and...
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From: The Nation[In the review below of the Theater Guild production of A Month in the Country, Krutch extols Turgenev's penetrating psychological portraits of the characters.] The Theater Guild's experiments with standard plays have...