“Mr Lawrence, of course, cannot escape his genius. The secondary qualities of ‘Touch and go’ are superior to the big things in the work of many other dramatists.” Gilbert Seldes
+ − Dial 69:215 Ag ’20 100w
“Mr Lawrence’s new play, ‘Touch and go,’ seems to indicate that, while the author may have gained compensations in other ways, he has lost, temporarily, it is to be hoped, under the blighting strains and trials of the last few years, some of the vital energy that is essential to a dramatist.” Elva de Pue
− + Freeman 2:332 D 15 ’20 390w
“This is a play serious in purpose, of vital contemporaneous interest, unexceptionable motive and written with knowledge and ability, which is nevertheless ineffective, because while it exhibits a comprehensive sense of existing conditions and states its problem very clearly, it has nothing to offer or suggest in the way of a possible solution except a series of benevolent platitudes.” J. R. Towse
+ − N Y Evening Post p3 N 27 ’20 680w
“The preface is so excellent, so much in the manner of the great English tradition that it holds, and urges, and ends by being, I think, even better than the play, a fine little masterpiece of eight pages.” Amy Lowell
+ N Y Times p7 Ag 22 ’20 2000w
“The only thing amusing in the little volume is the preface, which is entertaining enough. Mr Lawrence does not make this mistake of open didacticism when he writes poetry. Why, oh! why, does he write drama like this?”