Word: andreyev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neill & Andreyev...
...group of very young Russians, seated on a marble terrace above the sea (quite in Elinor Glyn's best manner) discussed every subject under the sun, including literature and its High Priest, Leonid Andreyev. On Feb. 12, 1928 (remembered as the birthday of one of them), a group of not-so-young Russians sat in an attic overlooking chimney pots (in the best starving-artist manner), and discussed art-or rather the lack...
...spare you the translation of our remarks: they were not in the best lo-the-poor-immigrant manner. But at length I said-"Oh well, God is merciful even to this benighted land. The mantle of our Andreyev has fallen upon Eugene O'Neill; while he lives and writes, U. S. A. may boast of a literature far beyond would-be psychological excursions into sordid Main Streets. I am expecting a new weekly magazine of news; possibly it may be less for 'les cretins' than the majority of the news press...
Encouraged by the reception of "Beranger," the Dramatic Club now turned to one of the centuries most lertilo in the materials or art and especially the art of the theatre Russia. Leonid Andreyev's the "Life of Man" was the next production. Written by the author of "He Who Gets Slapped" it contained the germs of that play and was held by Andreyev to be the better of the two. Andreyev critics however have disagreed with him on that point, it was an ultramodern play and received ultramodern treatment. New York heard of this latest importation and wanted...
Since he became a member of the English Department at Smith, Professor Eliot has directed a large number of productions given by both the Workshop, which he founded, and the Senior class. The performance of "False Gods" and later of Andreyev's "The Black Maskers" gained Professor Eliot considerable fame in theatrical circles, both on account of the elaborate settings required and the acting of the young women he coached...