The Play
Skinner, Richard Dana
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By RICHARD DANA SKINNER
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MR. BROOKS ATKINSON, one of the most studious
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York daily press, has just...
...its full expansion...
...please don't say that the theatre has no room for innocent fun...
...their technical scope they are better equipped than the stage...
...should give new vitality to the refreshed theatre which the...
...WILLIAM A. GREW has written here a harmless and...
...Short well worth seeing—once...
...It is possible that a war play of such...
...more besides...
...found in both audiences...
...conveying emotion, whenever it can be done through objective...
...Miss Bonstelle, for...
...companies in many important respects...
...Journey's End is a good example of the type—which the theatre...
...popular attitude than any play, no matter how brutal in its...
...plot, and that is the conveying of the finer nuances of thought...
...Once the superficial clever...
...The entertainment industry, in other words, is...
...with the intelligentsia and being highbrow against your better...
...rather than external action will always demand, as will the...
...Theatre Guild, gave forth last spring...
...At the Belasco Theatre...
...high-brows...
...working together informally with exchange of casts and pro...
...show more scenes, fnl'ow action more surely and completely...
...local civic theatre established by Jessie Bonstelle in Detroit is...
...in the theatre, he suggests, the class of people who devour Dim...
...ness"—meaning the purely commercial manager—has catered...
...you are not in an exacting mood, and are willing to be lulled...
...have the emergence of organizations capable of grappling with...
...ment of the same theme...
...of its effectiveness, is almost unknown to the talkies...
...judgment, and a popular left wing, approximately as stupid as...
...This line of argument—which by now has become a com...
...possible day when his own talk orgies may find a place upon the...
...O'Neill's The Great God Brown, or of any of Ibsen's plays of...
...on this idea, and maintaining close contact with the main cen...
...ment that the last few years have witnessed among commercial...
...Farce comedy that treats our responsibil...
...of the more popular order—plays of action, of mystery or of...
...be a boon to lovers of fine theatre, and in a sense which the...
...It's a Wise Child...
...the fact that this class of people, instead of being tightly limited...
...afternoon and evening performances of more serious plays give...
...biographies and books of philosophic discussion into best sellers...
...lasts two weeks, giving the company that is not playing a rea...
...O'Hara and Patricia Quinn besport themselves in pleasant vein...
...erations extending over the country, and troubled only by an...
...giving a new play each week and rehearsing the following week's...
...They are...
...reads only cheap novels and finds the summit of its culture in...
...through from cause to result...
...Atkinson compares the future audience of the theatre...
...behavior if it is to hold any sizable audience at all, and that this...
...theatre its economic sinews...
...point worth repeating is one which is timeworn to readers of...
...quite distinct and apart from the stage...
...ably be this centre zone in dramatic presentations just as there...
...ture of the play, it hardly seems necessary to go into detailed...
...gaining yearly in power, scope and effectiveness...
...am inclined to think that a clear-cut line between dramatic...
...centre group that will seek its entertainment and stimulus from...
...particular function...
...old-fashioned entertainment...
...There is nothing in it to stimulate...
...David Belasco has opened his new season with this ex...
...York daily press, has just reiterated, in a slightly different form...
...and unmarried girl can throw consternation into many quarters...
...These thoughts, which...
...it perpetrate every now and then bits of sheer twaddle or...
...of the Bonstelle tradition in Detroit) Cameron Mathews, and...
...comedy of this general order are always more destructive of...
...Among those who contribute...
...There will be a right wing of exclusive theatre...
...best in the theatre, even though it may seriously hurt the...
...house...
...We happen to be living in an age...
...art of the theatre a new freedom for development and a special...
...In other words, they can take a plot which does not...
...of stage setting and scene shifting, and give it credible life...
...ecstasy which—whether we encounter it in verse or in prose...
...word "consequences...
...follows: The talkies have established a genuine popularity, in...
...adequate expression in the talkies, but who can imagine a...
...mental...
...she is about to become a mother...
...There will...
...achieve unexpected power under the improved technique of the...
...does not rob the main suggestion of its interest...
...The talkies will take care of...
...and spontaneity and immediacy of the actor on the speaking...
...They will undoubtedly continue to draw increasing...
...from the inherent mechanical nature of the talkies, that they...
...The poet often enjoys a good de...
...wide gulf between plays of this sort and the entrancing human...
...The situations are too trite and the working out of the plot...
...508...
...The present season may well prove to be a preliminary test...
...And, in other...
...theatrical dog-days of summer, center around the idea that the...
...sentially of the screen will never be established...
...It is still rea...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 20
