SOURCE: “Moody's ‘The Great Divide’,” in The American Theatre as Seen by Its Critics, 1752-1934, edited by Montrose J. Moses and John Mason Brown, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1934 pp. 176-8.

In the following essay, which was originally published in The New York Sun in 1906, Corbin offers a favorable assessment of The Great Divide.

Mr. William Vaughn Moody's new American drama, The Great Divide, which Henry Miller and Margaret Anglin presented last night at the Princess, is so bold and vital in theme, so subtly veracious and unaffectedly strong in the writing, that it is very hard in the few moments left by a tardy if excellent performance to speak of it in terms at once of justice and of moderation.

Yet it is abundantly clear that no play of the present season—a season unusually rich—has equalled it either in calibre or in execution, except only...