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What Price Glory? by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson was produced by Anthony Hopkins at the Plymouth Theatre in New York City in 1924 and was immediately hailed by critics as "the most sensationally successful of the important plays of 1924-25." Stallings is also the author of Plumes (a novel published in the same year), numerous short stories, articles, reviews, and two other plays, but What Price Glory ? remains his most important contribution to American drama. More than just another antiwar drama, this realistic play which focuses on ordinary soldiers in World War I was lauded for its objectivity, simplicity, and power. Critics praised it as "a milestone in the development of the modern theatre toward pure naturalism in dialogue," and Harlan Hatcher concluded in 1935: "Taking his work in all forms as a single whole, Laurence Stallings has done more than any one American author to cut away the romantic glamour of war and to expose its wretchedness."
When What Price Glory? was produced, a new trend in American theatre was developing.
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