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Show The New York Times has at last discovered the dawning of the American Ameri-can drama in Mark Twain's play "The Gilded Age," which has been dramatized from the romance of that nAine. All it.-; eharactors, it.- motive, ita humor, its p-alio, niul its inovt'iu-nt am em pliatically American. To my this and to sat that it lias dramatic unity, power and fuhues.s is lo s-ay a great deal. Yet all this U measurably true. It is truly an American work. It is of nativo authorship, author-ship, color, motive, tlavor and humor How much superior it is to to iho artificial aiid unnatural plays tuat ara ebielly recommended rec-ommended toour people bccimethuy are Parisian, wo ntt-a not say. The char-actors char-actors ara ail national and appeal to t bo lommon feme and oxporience as woll as the sympathies ot each spectator. They may be foibles and weaknesses but they Iihvo tho too rare merit of being honesi and lifelike. The Times does not give- unqualified unquali-fied praise to the play, and thinks it may he pruned without loss, but regards re-gards it a great advance in the American Ameri-can drama. |