The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 22, 1930

The Long Road. Given an inferior actor for the leading role. The Long Road might have been a well-documented, thoughtful, but overlong play. Playwright Hugh Stange (Veneer, Fog-Bound) apparently has a talent for the sort of literary clairvoyance which goes well in novels, but he lacks the ability to condense, solidify and invigorate his material for dramatic presentation. Only a superior player like Otto Kruger (The Game of Love & Death, Karl & Anna), whose Barrymorose features were used to great success in The Royal...

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