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...negotiations are resumed. The "comedy of character" fails to concentrate on one principal character. Little episodes of suspicion are heaped, one upon the other, to build up a mound of irritation, but not a real climax. No single incident is emphasized to give unity and effective emphasis to the plot action. Therefore, till the second half of the last act, the play dawdles along without seizing upon the audience's imagination or sympathy. The Emperor Jones. Eugene O'Neill's play about a Negro whom terror drives from a golden, stolen throne into a ghost-jungle...
Behind the slim plot, through long-drawn-out dialogue, Italian Dramatist Pirandello's philosophy of reality struggles to reveal itself. Facts are not reality, are merest illusions of the senses. Fiction of the imaginative mind is the only true reality. Hence the pity of it: a poor girl torn out of her last shred of beauty, revealed even in death, a sordid fact...
Parisian Ire. The semi-official Parisian journals fulminated last week against Signer Mussolini for having, in their opinion, deliberately caused his agents to egg on a plot which might well have embroiled France and Spain if it had gone much further...
...prototype of the plot has often furnished the theme for other novels, and movies. Mr. Godwin Birtwhistle, wealthy, aging, respectable, sedate north of England manufacturer well settled, comfortably married, went, much against his will, to London on business...
...Bausman concludes that the delay of this action till 1917 was at least a negative blessing, as an earlier entry would have meant the triumph of Russian arms and Russian preponderance in Europe. Finally, when the Allies triumph with America's inestimable aid, they laugh at our idealism and plot to defraud us of our just debts. A propaganda of hate they spread against us on the continent. And in the future the United States must be prepared for complete debt evasion by the Allied Powers, and must dread a powerful and growing England...