Stark Young was a Mississippi native and a member of the Vanderbilt Fugitive movement. A playwright and critic, He founded the Texas Review and was a drama critic for the New Republic. His most famous novel, So Red the Rose, addresses the American Civil War.
The year of 1932 is ended, with its winter premieres and ventures in production, its spring showings, its continuations of what had proved itself a success or fairly successful, its summer of revivals and fresh experiments in groups, little...