The Wingless Victory (by Maxwell Anderson; Katharine Cornell, producer). The great moment in this play comes when Actress-Manager Cornell, as Princess Oparre from the Celebes, turns on her New England husband, his family and all igth-Century Salem. She reminds them of the goodwill with which she came among them, denounces them for the hypocrisy, humiliation and persecution with which they have repaid her. She declares that she is now turning from the Christ of Forgiveness, having found no mercy among His followers. She reviles her tormentors' pale, cruel faces and pale, spiteful...
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