it is impossible not to realize that as dramatic literature The Land Is Bright is something to be taken about as seriously as a comic strip serial, which it closely resembles". Eleanor Roosevelt was more enthusiastic, particularly of the message: "leaves you no moment when you are not tensely held by the action on the stage... There were times when... the story was slightly overdrawn, and yet... I came away with one great sense of satisfaction, for... It points the moral that the whole level of public responsibility and integrity has gone up over the period of the last fifty years." The play was published once, in 1941, and is out print since, being available only in manuscript form and has been rarely staged since its Broadway run. The Palmetto Players of Converse College mounted a production in 1942. References Further reading 1941 plays Broadway plays Plays by George S. Kaufman Plays by Edna Ferber