The Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Nov. 10, 1930

Roar China! Last year the scholarly Theatre Guild went somewhat pinko when it produced Red Rust, an explanation of and a bald piece of propaganda for the social system in U. S. S. R. The Guild's pinko presentation this year is good Soviet drama, but it is not chiefly concerned with boosting Communism. It is. rather, a majestic piece of stagecraftsmanship which takes as its text the exploitation of helpless, sprawling China by a red-faced British Imperialism, aided and abetted by a sour-faced U. S. Protestantism....

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