Word: andreyev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immortal Andreyev was a Russian because he spoke no thought that was not coloured by a memory. He differed from our Shakspere because no impulse was edited in its utterance. His was the uncensored utterance of the psychology of his soul. He made no apologies. He left much to guess at and work out. But if you have the courage and the perseverance to discard the ever obvious, you find and will continue to find yourself free from the character-racking conventionalities of our useless modern civilization. His greatest admirers were his worst defaulters. Tolstoi, Gorki, etc. filched his work...
...Gets Slapped" grew out of the vulgar misappropriation and misinterpretation of "The Life of Man". Andreyev saw no hope for man in the present state of civilization. He said so in "The Life of Man". His "The Life of Man" was a fine piece of writing, written in the newer means and methods of the theatre, written with the power and vigor that satiric truth and penetration can alone bring. It was written before "He Who Gets Slapped", and the unacknowledged adaptations of his "The Life of Man" that were used on other continental stages, coupled with domestic unhappiness, made...
...designs for the settings of the five scenes of Andreyev's "Life of Man', have been completed by D. M. Oenslager '23, it was announced last night by the Dramatic Club. The settings follow the trend of the impressionistic school, the stage of suggestion; with no attempt at any realistic illusion. All of the five scenes is set against a background formed by a black cycloramic cone covered with grey gauze. The settings harmonize with the mood and action of the play, beginning with the humble scene of Man's birth and reaching its climax in his magnificence...
...Bennett told of the difficulties that had to be overcome before the production of Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the Horizon", and then went on to discuss Andreyev and "He Who Gets Slapped". At the end he answered a number of questions put to him by his audience...
...Richard Bennet, now playing in Boston in Andreyev's Russian character-comedy, "He Who Gets Slapped", will speak at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon under the auspices of the 47 Workshop, in lower Massachusetts Hall. The meeting will be open to members and workers of the 47 Workshop, the Harvard Dramatic Club, the Departments of Music and Fine Arts, Comparative Literature 19, and English...