We Like Priestley, America Can't Stomach Him
J B. PRIESTLEY’S plays may * be a success in the British Empire, but they leave America cold, Last year his successful London play, ‘‘Time and the Conways," was transferred to the New
York stage-and flopped miserably. Caustic critic, George Jean Nathan, described it as a "large piece of heavy Yorkshire pudding without the roast beef." A few weeks ago another successful Priestley play, "I Have Been Here Before" (most successfully produced by the Wellington Repertory Theatre recently) was staged in America and flopped worse. Said the great novelist-play-wright after this second failure: "Tt have always felt that there was an inexplicable sense of menace in. New York, as if something were plotting against the soul of man." Priestley’s plays are immensely popular with repertory societies in New Zealand. Every play the Yorkshireman has written has been produced by amateurs. at some ‘time ‘or another in this counry. ‘
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Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 28, 23 December 1938, Page 3
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154We Like Priestley, America Can't Stomach Him Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 28, 23 December 1938, Page 3
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