Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plymouth--"The House Beautiful." Channing Pollock's amusing sentimentally. Reviewed in this issue...
...Plymouth Theatre on Monday night was presented a curious play; a play connected by Channing Pollock out if fantasy, sentimentally, and morality. Mr. Pollock has some very definite ideas on the function of the drama and in "The House Beautiful" he displays these theories to the exclusion of dramatic unity, dramatic interest, and dramatic force...
...theorist Mr. Pollock commands attention by virtue of his efforts to purge the present day theatre of much of its coarseness, of its melodramatic tendencies, and of its often brutal realism. In accomplishing this end the play wright would exist the virtues of John Doe, showing that the lives of good, simple people often contain dramatic material of the first order, which may be converted into the proper sort of the artist is keen enough to see in the shiny serge suit of John Doe the flashing cuirass of a true knight...
...Pollock discussed the modern drama in general, slipping easily from anecdote to fact, and from fact to fiction. He went to lengths to denounce the decadence, immorality and sophistication of the theatre. Some of the dramatists who felt the sting of his rhetoric were O'Neill, Phillip Barry, Neel Coward and Pirandello. Shakespeare, being, fortunately, of another age, escaped. Pollock, opposed to "photographic realism," crusades for virtue, idealism, sentimentalism and the "Glory and Romance of everyday life." Certainly he has realized these aims in his plays, particularly "The Fool," "The Enemy" and his latest, "The House Beautiful," which opens next...
...Channing Pollock believes, and his success proves, that there is a public for clean, wholesome drama. He thinks we are not really a decadent people, but merely falsely guided...