Theatre Arts, Volume 2Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs Theatre Arts, Incorporated, 1918 |
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... attempt to deal justly with the busi- ness theatre , while continuing to resist those forces of commer- cialization and vulgarization upon which we have declared war . For the rest we re - subscribe to certain aims set forth in the ...
... attempt to deal justly with the busi- ness theatre , while continuing to resist those forces of commer- cialization and vulgarization upon which we have declared war . For the rest we re - subscribe to certain aims set forth in the ...
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... attempt scenery . To - day , a critic remarks of one of his Newfoundland landscapes : " A work which reaches force of statement through an appreciation of the- atrical values . " Why should the stage not profit by them ? Jules Guerin ...
... attempt scenery . To - day , a critic remarks of one of his Newfoundland landscapes : " A work which reaches force of statement through an appreciation of the- atrical values . " Why should the stage not profit by them ? Jules Guerin ...
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... attempt to disguise moving objects — camouflage— succeeds so long as a gun or a man stands still . But no system of color - spotting will render invisible a ship on the sea or a can- non moving across a hill . It is true that a spot of ...
... attempt to disguise moving objects — camouflage— succeeds so long as a gun or a man stands still . But no system of color - spotting will render invisible a ship on the sea or a can- non moving across a hill . It is true that a spot of ...
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... attempt and invent ; it must evolve , encourage and create . It must never really reach maturity , for that implies completion . It must strain forward to new achievements without pausing to luxuriate in the past nor even to hope too ...
... attempt and invent ; it must evolve , encourage and create . It must never really reach maturity , for that implies completion . It must strain forward to new achievements without pausing to luxuriate in the past nor even to hope too ...
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... attempt to eliminate the sort of over - ornamentation that is common in ninety - nine out of every hundred American playhouses ; that boxes have been discarded ; and that decorative effect is obtained through structural line rather than ...
... attempt to eliminate the sort of over - ornamentation that is common in ninety - nine out of every hundred American playhouses ; that boxes have been discarded ; and that decorative effect is obtained through structural line rather than ...
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Página 23 - ... modern school of ballet — wherein each action is an end, and no movement, pose, or rhythm is successive, or can be made to evolve succeeding action — is an expression of degeneration, of living death. All the movements of our modern ballet school are sterile movements, because they are unnatural ; their purpose is to create the delusion that the law of gravitation does not exist for them.
Página 81 - ... ultimately reach a place where it helps mankind to a better human understanding, to a deeper social pity and to a wider tolerance of all that is life...
Página 82 - ... production. What was originally experimental has now become a fixed method, and I hope definitely to demonstrate that there is a way to insure invariably the projection of nearly all the values a play may possess. From the very beginning I had an abhorrence of all that is generally termed theatric. It seemed cheap and tawdry, the trick of the street fakir. I thought for a long time that my prejudice was personal and not well founded. But, finally, all protest and all new seeking began naturally...
Página 85 - new" scenery, much has been said and written, and most of it beside the point. One's position in the matter is entirely determined by which mind he thinks the stage has to do with, the conscious or the unconscious. Realistic settings are designed wholly for conscious appeal. An attempt at exact reproduction challenges the conscious mind of the audience to comparison. Comparison of the scene as it is offered with the auditor's conscious knowledge of what it is supposed to reproduce. If a Childs Restaurant...
Página 23 - It is not only a question of true art, it is a question of race, of the development of the female sex to beauty and health, of the return to the original strength and to natural movements of woman's body. It is a question of the development of perfect mothers and the birth of healthy and beautiful children.
Página 3 - To help conserve and develop creative impulse in the American theatre ; to provide a permanent record of American dramatic art in its formative period ; to hasten the day when the speculators will step out of the established playhouse and let the artists come in : such are the aims of THEATRE ARTS MAGAZINE.