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Produced by John P. Roberts, III DAMAGED GOODS The Great Play "Les Avaries" of Eugene Brieux Novelized with the approval of the author by Upton Sinclair THE PRODUCTION OF EUGENE BRIEUX'S PLAY, "LES AVARIES," OR, TO GIVE IT ITS ENGLISH TITLE, "DAMAGED GOODS," HAS INITIATED A MOVEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY WHICH MUST BE REGARDED AS EPOCH-MAKING.--New York Times +++Page 4 is a virtually unreadable letter in handwritten script from M. Brieux.+++ PREFACE My endeavor has been to tell a simple story, preserving as closely as possible the spirit and feeling of the original.
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Upton Sinclair PRESS COMMENTS ON THE PLAY DAMAGED GOODS was first presented in America at a Friday matinee on March 14th, 1913, in the Fulton Theater, New York, before members of the Sociological Fund.
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Before deciding whether of not to present DAMAGED GOODS before the general public, it was arranged that the highest officials in the United States should pass judgment upon the manner in which the play teaches its vital lesson.
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The impression made upon the audience by the remarkable play is reflected in such comments as the following expressions voiced after the performance: RABBI SIMON, OF THE WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION--If I could preach from my pulpit a sermon one tenth as powerful, as convincing, as far-reaching, and as helpful as this performance of DAMAGED GOODS must be, I would consider that I had achieved the triumph of my life.
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EARLE WILFLEY--I am confirmed in the opinion that we must take up our cudgels in a crusade against the modern problems brought to the fore by DAMAGED GOODS.
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JUSTICE DANIEL THEW WRIGHT--I feel quite sure that DAMAGED GOODS will have considerable effect in educating the people of the nature of the danger that surrounds them.
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It (DAMAGED GOODS) is, of course, a masterpiece of "thesis drama,"--an argument, dogmatic, insistent, inescapable, cumulative, between science and common sense, on one side, and love, of various types, on the other.
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Mr. Richard Bennett, New York City, N.Y. My Dear Mr. Bennett: During the past twenty-one years since I entered public life, I have experienced many exciting hours under the influence of reformer, orator and actor, but, in this mood of retrospection, I do not know that I have ever passed through a more thrilling, terrible, and yet hopeful experience than last evening, while I listened to your interpretation of Eugene Brieux' "DAMAGED GOODS."
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No young man who sees "Damaged Goods" will ever be the same again.
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A chap naturally wouldn't tell, when he knew it would damn him for life."