Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-02 | Page 15 | American is Puzzle to Maurice Donnay

AMERICA IS PUZZ7LE TO MAURICE D0NNAY PARTS. July l. fBy the Associated1 Press, i Maurice Donnay felt himself! n a strange atmosphere among the amerlcari dramatists ana theatrical' producers on his recent visit to Nowl York, he says in an article regarding the United States about to Appear lal the Revue des Doux Mondes "They do not eee tho Held for psr- etiological study that wo see in the! much-tall:od of "trlonKle" of th hufc-j band wife and lover," he v. ntfj.j ' Thc arc very severe on soxual mSJN als and know as little of the FrenchB theatre as we know of theirs. 1 "They like eomlc. pathetic or quick-S action, and rapid dialogue, abov 'ill, I action, with happy endings that do notfl Infringe on the serial order. "But.' adds M Donnay. "an Arneri-j con lady had, on my recommendatloaJ rad some works on the French theatrej and said. "I understand now The French saju theil ihing. while the American- dbj them." -J