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# R.U.R. Theater Review - Judge Magazine This page promotes "R.U.R." (*Rossum's Universal Robots*), a Karel Capek play produced by the Theater Guild. The satire compares robots to "Babbitts"—a reference to the shallow, conformist businessman protagonist of Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel *Babbitt*. The joke is that in this world, only one human remains; everyone else is a manufactured robot—yet they're indistinguishable from ordinary men. The caption suggests robots and humans are equally unremarkable or emotionally vacant. The photos show theatrical scenes: robots mimicking human behavior (love, interviews, work), with the implicit satire that modern conformist society produces people as emotionally authentic as machines. The play's premise—that artificial beings become indistinguishable from real ones—reflects 1920s anxieties about industrialization, standardization, and loss of authentic human individuality in modern life.
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