The last time the Pulitzer Prize committee made a theatre award which met with anything like universal approval was in 1930. That year the $1,000 "for the original American play performed in New York which shall best represent the educational value and power of the stage" went to The Green Pastures. By that time the prize committee had practically ceased trying to abide by the will of Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, which had also stipulated that the winning drama should be pre-eminent "in raising the standards of good morals, good taste and good...
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