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... Old Vic . " The syndicates replied with Cæsar's Wife , Bird of Paradise , Eastward Ho , and one or two more improved exhibitions . One encouraging thing at this moment was the appearance of a species of play which was not designed to ...
... Old Vic . " The syndicates replied with Cæsar's Wife , Bird of Paradise , Eastward Ho , and one or two more improved exhibitions . One encouraging thing at this moment was the appearance of a species of play which was not designed to ...
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... Old Vic . " ? The syndicates replied with Cæsar's Wife , Bird of Paradise , Eastward Ho , and one or two more improved exhibitions . One encouraging thing at this moment was the appearance of a species of play which was not designed to ...
... Old Vic . " ? The syndicates replied with Cæsar's Wife , Bird of Paradise , Eastward Ho , and one or two more improved exhibitions . One encouraging thing at this moment was the appearance of a species of play which was not designed to ...
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... Old Vic , " or " The Royal Victoria Hall , " as it was called when founded in 1880. It has done so partly by its attempt to supply a public need , partly by the nature and value of its work , partly by its financial difficulties ...
... Old Vic , " or " The Royal Victoria Hall , " as it was called when founded in 1880. It has done so partly by its attempt to supply a public need , partly by the nature and value of its work , partly by its financial difficulties ...
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... Old Vic was kept alive by an annual grant from the City Parochial Foundation , from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust in 1918 and on , by large helpings of Miss Lilian Baylis's private purse , by sympathisers , public subscriptions ...
... Old Vic was kept alive by an annual grant from the City Parochial Foundation , from the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust in 1918 and on , by large helpings of Miss Lilian Baylis's private purse , by sympathisers , public subscriptions ...
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... Old Vic " appeared . But its partnership days are not ended . It seeks to go into the popular business with Sadler's Wells Theatre , or any other that will adopt an exchange system of Shakespeare and opera . There have been three " Old ...
... Old Vic " appeared . But its partnership days are not ended . It seeks to go into the popular business with Sadler's Wells Theatre , or any other that will adopt an exchange system of Shakespeare and opera . There have been three " Old ...
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Page 214 - It was they who first realized that art has performed its function when it has expressed itself; it was they who first conceived of Criticism as the study of expression. "There is a destructive and a creative or constructive criticism," said Goethe; the first measures and tests Literature according to mechanical standards, the second answers the fundamental questions: "What has the writer proposed to himself to do? and how far has he succeeded in carrying out his own...
Page 242 - I. future advance and happiness. Accordingly, they attribute to the Machine all their social and moral attributes . . . their own vitality, strength, courage, cleanness, steel nerves, persistency, precision, rhythm, style, endurance...
Page 226 - Neo-Realism," show analogous tendencies. According to Tairoff : " Everything must serve the actor. The actor must serve himself. He must clothe himself with the spirit of his concept or idea as with a mask, and each object and agent must clothe itself with the spirit of its particular art expression. The voice of the actor must sound like music, his movements must give rhythm to the play, his technique must be the external form of the internal. The stage that serves these expressions must have different...
Page 214 - The theory of expression, the concept of literature as an art of expression, is the common ground on which critics have met for a century or more. Yet how many absurdities, how many complicated systems, how many confusions have been superimposed on this fundamental idea; and how slowly has its full significance become the possession of critics! To accept the naked principle is to play havoc with these confusions and complications; and no one has seen this more clearly, or driven home its inevitable...
Page 201 - ... to causes other than those set up by the Communistic activities of Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and the Spartakists. One or two authoritative writers, however, are disposed to give the credit of the Revolution, partly if not wholly, to these restless Germans. " The events at Berlin on November 9 were decisive for the whole country. The kings and princes fled from their capitals, power passed into the hands of the Socialists without shedding of blood, and Soldiers' Councils sprang up at the...
Page 112 - It is much the most effective teacher of morals and promoter of good conduct that the ingenuity of man has yet devised, for the reason that its lessons are not taught wearily by book and dreary homily, but by visible and enthusing action ; and they go straight to the heart, which is the Tightest of right places for them.
Page 42 - He need only go to the theatre or to a fashionable dance to see as much of woman as any man has any right to see, and sometimes much more."3 Some of Mr.
Page 102 - Scheherazade obtained by a wide range of colours brought in by the slaves and eunuchs and set vibrating against a great mass of emerald green, and by the swaying lines caught up and repeated by every object and agent in the scene.
Page 117 - ... to endow them with the further riches of rare works by contemporary playwrights, and to maintain efficient acting.
Page 116 - ... movement that very soon surrounded him with the most notable literary realists and free-thinkers of the day — Lavedan, Paul Marguerite, Zola, Porto-Riche, the Goncourts, Villiers de l'Isle Adam, Curel, Brieux, Hennique, Jean Aicard, Pierre Wolff, and many more.