Show Roger tRoger Bloomer Brought Out in Book Form Sto Storm m Center Center of f Critical Critical Battle BattleS S Tells of Youths Struggle y ol th Struggle for Expression press on 4 t Roger by John I Howard Laws Lawson LawsOn- was produced by bythe bythe bythe the Equity players last year ear it at atI attracted attracted at- at I widespread attention As Asa I Ia a matter of fact it was the center I of the warmest critical battle battIe st sliced lI ed on Broadway in years ears No play wis was ever e more roundly condemned and anel none received higher praises ft flom orn favorable critics than this one oue At any any rate gath the play sot ot ot ita itself l talk talked about in all circles where the drama is a topic opi of ot c conversation The TIte play is I now bein brought out in bo book k form fOrin an anil we presume that the hostilities will evil 11 start anew for o it presents nothing Jg is not nt a chance for an argument roger Bloomer is daring in Us its ts tJ It It handles subjects which convention convention conven conven- tion taboos with th the ea ease e of old friends discussing the po of the weather Roger Bloomer is the story of the struggle of youth to l know now and Understand life lire Jt ht is original and unbound I by the tue traditions and tl the e conventions of the theatre A great many readers would be shocked by thIs rank frank exposition of forbidden subjects No o doubt they would take issue with poets and the tle artists w who vio o will find in it poetic it-poetic truth and expressionistic One who appreciates the worth of or the play would hesitate to ment It to a friend Still he would not deny himself a second reading The reason for the immense in interest interest interest in- in terest that Roger Bloomer ar aroused used is simple It is a striking I significant c departure from the conventional conventional conventional con con- dramatic formula both Inform in inform inform form and content Speaking of its form forni John Corbin dramatic critic of the New Kew York Times Tunes says it Ii isby isby is isby by fir far the most complete and technically tech tech- perfect ct example of dramatic expressionism that has yet reached us Roger Bloomer is I a young ung American passionately striving Itri ing lag to find his place in in- a a. world whose aims alms are incomprehensible No Xe truer or more moving picture of the drama of youth has over ver I leen en written His encounters with life Ufe first firstin in an Iowa town then in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York are vividly etched in scenes of or imaginative c power and poetic beauty Unlike most dramas Roger flog Rog er Bloomer is as satisfying as a library play as it is ie on op the stage Thomas Co Ca New York I |