The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1932

Men Must Fight (by Reginald Lawrence & S. K. Lauren; Joseph P. Bickerton Jr., producer) is an idea play. The idea is that if people really did not want wars there would not be any.

It is the year 1940. The U. S. is about to begin hostilities with a federation of South American States. Secretary of State Edwin Seward (claiming no relationship with Lincoln's Secretary of State) has signed the declaration. His wife and son are dead against Seward's folly. His son's chauvinistic sweetheart is all for it. Nevertheless, the younger Seward...

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