Word: andreyev
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...final curtain of the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of Andreyev's "Life of Man", at Brattle Hall last Tuesday evening, left a profound impression on the audience as a whole, and an impulsive desire on the individual's part to rush up and shake hands all around, with producers and actors alike, on the success of this, their supreme achievement. Last year, in "Beranger", the club undertook what many thought to be a task beyond its scope and power--and finished it with high credit to themselves. In the present instance, this courageous little group of workers entered upon...
...thing well done must be commended, and after the first burst of enthusiasm is over it requires considerable effort to get down to a normal critical plane and find anything like the perspective so easily applied to the average play. In the first place, Andreyev's "Life of Man" is obviously the work of a playwright who sees little or no hope for man in his present state of society. It is bitter, deeply so in parts, and tries at every turn to focus the listener's attention on the utter futility of Man's days on earth...
...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...