Enter The Handsome Stranger

June, 1957

Enter the Handsome StrangerA new device has been invented by American playwrights and about time, too. The rest of you have probably discovered it already and perhaps a few sociological tracts have been written about it, but I'm a little slow in latching on to these things, so you'll have to be patient with me.Fashions in dramaturgical devices come and go, of course. During the time of Eugène Scribe, Victorien Sardou and other constructors of the pièce-bien-faite, the Crucial Letter, read by som...