Word: andreyev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of its teachers that it has rather more than its share of talent, ability and courage. A striking example of this has been given by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which entirely against the advice of many of the elders who were consulted decided to put on the stage Andreyev's "The Life of Man", and did so with more success than has attended any performance in recent years...
...last performance of Andreyev's "Life of Man" by the Harvard Dramatic Club will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at Brattle Hall. Due to the length of the performance, the club management has decided to cut out various sections, reducing the performance from three and three-quarters to three and a quarter hours...
...estate and married--is undergoing the pangs of poverty, and the visit to his humble quarters by kinsfolk seems to establish more clearly his state of utter want. In the part that follows, J. J. Collier and Miss Secoy did a really splendid piece of acting. Andreyev has unfettered his wings of imagination and let them soar at will. The ecstasy, the pathos, the stabbing joy of building castles in the air, or high above a fjord, were portrayed with a remarkable degree of freshness and enthusiasm. The author has a most happy way of allowing his hero to beat...
...which Man, now a rich and influential playwright, gives a ball for his friends. Skillful in balancing the previous scene when Man and his wife were the seekers, the ambitious ones, and the unfortunates, against their single and dramatic appearance (without a word on their part) in this scene, Andreyev has brought his symbolism into play anew; and the chorus of "how costly", "how gorgeous", "honor", mock adoration, etc., satirizes the autocracy of wealth. The maddening monotony of all this is only excelled by the musicians, who labored heroically under riotously fantastic wigs, and who made the air blue with...
...second performance of Andreyev's "Life of Man" will be staged this evening at 8.10 o'clock In Brattle Hall. There will also be a performance tomorrow and Monday, the former a matinee at the Hollis theatre in Boston, and the latter in the evening at Brattle Hall. Tickets may be procured at the Harvard Cooperative Society and Leavitt and Peirce...