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...Bennett told of the difficulties that had to be overcome before the production of Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon", and then went on to discuss Andreyev and "He Who Gets Slapped". At the end he answered a number of questions put to him by his audience...
...Eugene O'Neill", continued Mr. Courtenay, "most nearly approaches a true school of American drama, but I do not think his type of play with a long succession of scenes has come to stay. The constant lowering of the curtain detracts from the impression of reality...
...suspicion either that your ideas of the greatest drama are all wrong, or that someone has exaggerated. Remarkable drama, artistic drama, "The Emperor Jones" assuredly is, and possibly also the greatest of its kind that America has yet produced--but that, after all, is a conservative assertion. Mr. O'Neill has succeeded in a difficult and ambitious task; he has traced in the character of a single negro his whole racial history, and the whole psychology of terror as well, Beyond that, he has skillfully developed an abandoned element of dramatic machinery--the monologue; and he has manipulated his material...
Selwyn.-"The Emperor Jones" by Eugene O'Neill. The unusual drama in which the negro actor, Charles Gilpin, has made a world-wide reputation...
...story, much of which would make good material for Eugene O'Neill at his bitterest, tells of the moral disintegration of Anthony Patch, and his wife Gloria. Anthony is our old friend Amory Blaine, now made for the sake of variety a Harvard man. Whether or not it is because of a change of Alma Mater, he is a little more consistently worthless than his Princeton prototype but otherwise he is the same. A good part of the novel is devoted to analyzing his character but for all this it seems to us that if Mr. Fitzgerald had described...