Word: andreyev
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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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...
...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...
...Miracle Plays to be presented by the Harvard Dramatic Club will be given the evenings of December 20 and 21 at the Germanic Museum and not on those of December 19 and 20 as previously announced. Patrons of the Dramatic Club who attend a performance of Andreyev's "Life of Man" will be given programs to which will be attached a perforated slip which will admit the holder free of charge to a performance of the Miracle Plays. These plays are under the direction of J. M. Brown...
...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...