Hungarian drama in New York. American adaptations, 1908-1940.

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worn price-clipped dust-jacket with chips and tears along edges and spine, good red cloth but with tear in cloth at bottom of spine and slight wave along top edge of a few pages. nicely INSCRIBED to recipient named in the acknowledgments: To Dr. E. Scully Bradbury in appreciation of his helpful criticisms, and SIGNED E. J. Gergely. GERGELY, EMRO JOSEPH. Hungarian drama in New York. American adaptations, 1908-1940. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1947, 197pp., . Dr. Sculley Bradley of the department of English, University of Pennsylvania, "aided me by his careful reading of the manuscript and by his constructive advice." The author's main gratitude goes to Professor Arthur Hobson Quinn of the same department. - Front jacket flap text: No list of successful plays of the past half century would be complete if it did not include a number by Hungarian playwrights. In fact, Molnar s Liliom, first produced in this country in 1921, is now enjoying a healthy revival in its adaptation to musical comedy in Carrousel. In this volume Professor Gergely brings together a wide but representative group of plays by Hungarian dramatists produced in New York between the years 1908 and 1940. This "Hungarian invasion" of the American theatre represents a Hungarian- American cultural contact which for thirty-two years loosely linked the theatres of the two nations. A reading of these plays shows the great range and the remarkable technical skill of the Hungarian dramatists and reveals a deep knowledge of Hun garian life and character. Altogether twenty-one Hungarian dramatists are listed, with forty-nine American playwrights who made the adaptations, including David Belasco, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sidney Howard, and others. The book tells, in part, what these Americans did to the originals in the process of adaptation. Long needed in America, this objective interpretation of the thousand-year-old Magyar civilization calls attention to the elements of that culture already woven into the general pattern of American life. A book for all students of the theatre, Hun garian Drama in New York should also prove of exceptional interest to the general reader. N° de ref. del artículo 95885

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