ABSTRACT
Theodore Roosevelt would undoubtedly be intensely annoyed by ‘The Seagull’. Its people, with a single exception, are stand-patters - pussyfooters, who see a dreaded fate catching up with them, and yet who make no efforts to escape it. Were preparedness an issue in ‘The Seagull’ one knows that its characters would be totally unresponsive. And were Russia depending to-day on the kind of people who inhabit this Russian drama then Germany's eastern frontier would be Main Street in Vladivostok.
