The Play and Other Things
Skinner, Richard Dana
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By RICHARD DANA SKINNER
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ANEW play by Paul Hervey Fox and George Tilton . . .
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... an...
...The wife of the commanding officer intends to shoot...
...He is merely...
...rub a frozen hand, that possible self which understands how...
...friendly world—not, of course, in the sense of having no...
...but surely in the sense of having his most secret instinct at...
...ological remarks display the very opposite quality to artistic...
...is sound...
...deal of unnecessarily bald language...
...tume before blinding footlights...
...and fail to carry conviction...
...Now let us glance for a moment at the actor...
...an insufferably hot military outpost of the British empire...
...change of roles might tone up the whole effect of the evening...
...At last Brenda Ritchie gives up—but with all the scorn which...
...tion...
...The Actor as Artist...
...either is looked down upon by nine out of ten creative artists...
...The truth is...
...The novelist has his resentment awakened...
...uses no objective materials...
...objective happening...
...actress...
...Just because it goes on...
...pleasure...
...objective materials of the play...
...stantial evidence is piled up in such a way as to extract a con...
...process of bringing something out of what is apparently nothing...
...But if he is a true artist, he will...
...There you have Soldiers...
...meanings...
...The sunset stirs a mood of melan...
...The soul of the artist, which possesses a great many selves...
...who conducts the investigation proceeds to work out a theory...
...felt death when he looked upon the sunset or as the novelist...
...and Verree Teasdale doing conspicuously good work...
...But if...
...Robert Benchley has already pointed out, the third...
...because, as a person, he has brought that impulse under the...
...people...
...view of his work, and you will rapidly find why he thinks he...
...characters he has known, but true symbols of those characters...
...He does not remember the particular...
...The part itself is rather thankless, but if carried off...
...The trouble lies, I believe, in our popular misuse of the...
...ing recalls the mood...
...the same emotions at every performance—just as the novelist...
...It is the sort of thing Katherine Cornell would sur...
...that added stage of importance which a good actor can impart...
...and not, as his rival artists would pretend, a paltry mimic...
...He is given...
...erring minds...
...cessfully on the stage (and that means to carry across to an...
...The part of the old general who has a score to...
...can express itself in myriad forms—and one of them...
...reproduction rather than creation...
...elements of a detective story in which the audience knows the...
...the method in which it was accomplished (which is all wrong...
...as his imagination—virtually out of nothing...
...own depth in his nature which responds to and understands...
...so they say, is not truly a creative artist at all...
...And during that moment of rehearsal the artist-actor...
...put into his mouth by someone else and faking emotions he...
...As Mr...
...As a bit of irony, it is quite unusual and effec...
...But in the setting of the original pattern, the...
...At least once during rehearsals...
...The more he is the true...
...In fact...
...not watched the long processes which have been at work within...
...until, some day, he gives it objective expression in a group of...
...which was not the way at all) and to connect incriminating...
...may be merely draughtsmen and novelists merely reporters...
...robbed a bank to keep his daughter in fine feathers...
...Violet Heming as the morose and scornful Brenda Ritchie...
...plete a book...
...the mood, perhaps death, and gives it form on his canvas...
...is undoubtedly a side of his character which could rob a bank...
...a work of art as truly as any other man who claims the title...
...the painter as creating certain moods or impressions, and we...
...He is asked to bring them to life from the dead pages...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 21
