Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 8, 1926

Goat Song. The Theatre Guild has also snapped its fingers. In the face of the most unsuccessful season the Guild has had since it became established, a play has been produced which must unquestionably fail. Goat Song is a German importation, its symbolism of the severest sort, abstract and corrosive and yet strangely fascinating.

Franz Werfel, the author, is concerned with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define...

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