Alien Corn
The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
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Alien Corn (1933), a play by Sidney Howard. [
Belasco Theatre, 98 perf.] Although Elsa Brandt ( Katharine
Cornell) is a superb young pianist, she is forced to drudge for a living as a teacher in a dreary school in order to support her crippled, widowed father ( Siegfried Rumann) and make ends meet. Elsa is courted by two young men: Julian Vardaman ( Luther
Adler), a radical English teacher, and Harry Conway ( James Rennie), a suave, rich married man who wants Elsa for a mistress. After she rejects them both, Julian kills himself. The ramifications of the scandal that will probably ensue allow Elsa to decide her future. When the investigating policeman asks if this is her home, she replies, “No. Vienna.” Howard's story was replete with the coincidences and foreshadowings that were the stock in trade of older melodrama. For example, early on Julian brandishes his gun and talks of shooting practice, in a moment not unlike that in
Hedda Gabler. But for all his melodramatic devices, Howard's writing was subdued, giving the play a modern, civilized air. Nevertheless it was largely on the strength of Cornell (who also produced the drama) and her luminous performance that the play found its small audience.
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