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tragedy. Dann might have been able to make a personal tragedy— the failure of ambition —out of his half-caste who strives for the betterment of the abos.; but the emphasis, instead of being personal, was on the general reaction of the abos. to their being uprooted from a cherished camp ; there was no general struggle, only pathos and pity, and so nothing to lift the play from pro-paganda to tragedy.
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