Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frost's most recent poems which will be printed in a book to be published this spring. However Frost's recital of his older, more familiar works was so well received that when e recited "Birches" for an encore he paused to remarked, " don't want you to act as if the new ones aren't as good...
...granting the excellence of these scenes, and the genuineness of the play's problem, the fact remains that either the problem could not be written into a three-act play or merely that Hart was incapable of doing so. Failing that, he has fallen back on the formula which made his "Lady in the Dark" such a success, the dream sequence. Thus with the aid of four (or is it five?) voyages into the tortured unconscious of Christopher Blake, Hart manages to pad out his play to the conventional length. Although they try mightily to be alternately charming and terrifying...
Warning that peace in Europe cannot be established permanently until Austria is act free to organize her own government, Karl Gruber, Austrian Foreign Minister, last night at an open forum in New Lecture Hall called on the Big Four to end military occupation of Austria as soon as possible...
What form the creations of Adam (for that is his name) take is the plot of the play. The first act deals in humorous satire--demonstrating how the characteristics Adam imparts to his men and women become magnified when they live--magnified to satirical parody of the traits of the men and women of today...
...second act is in a different tone entirely. Here Adam and his disciple. Alter Ego, meet their fate at the hands of their creations. And here the Capeks lose their sense of satire and even of drama and let their play degenerate into a mass of obscure symbolism and meaningless, unmotivated action...