+ Bookm 51:472 Je ’20 700w
“A book of plays by George Middleton promises interest for the reader, and ‘Masks’ is scarcely to be called a disappointment. Yet these dramas are rather thin in texture. The play which gives the book its title seems a bit forced in treatment.”
+ − Boston Transcript p4 My 12 ’20 380w
“Only in ‘Among the lions’ is there any deftness either of characterization or of action.” Gilbert Seldes
− + Dial 69:214 Ag ’20 120w
“Some of George Middleton’s published plays have been very bad, but they have always shown possibilities. That these possibilities have become actualities is evidenced by his latest volume.”
+ Drama 10:355 Jl ’20 350w
“His strength is in his ideas. He has thought justly and forcibly; he is clear where others are muddled, and collected where others are confused. What prevents Mr Middleton’s work a little from fulfilling one’s highest expectations of it is his dialogue. This weakness, one should add, is not wholly personal to Mr Middleton. We have little folk-speech.”
+ − Nation 110:693 My 22 ’20 900w
“All these plays are savagely polite, showing the ambition to achieve great satire without the ability to bite very deep.” M. C.