Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the great Stanislavski now nurses ill health behind the calcimined walls of a bourgeois mansion, his Moscow Art Theatre, with the famed sea gull from Chekhov's play on its curtain, remains "a spot sacred and awesome to the man of the theatre. . . . The audience seems to talk in lower tones here; their hair is combed more carefully. Their shirts are cleaner than in other theatres." The Days of the Tnrbins provided Observer Houghton's first impression. The play was an extremely sympathetic treatment of a White family during the horrors of the 1917-22 civil...
...Meierhold Theatre held in store an experience even more extraordinary. Vsevolod Meierhold was in the original cast of The Sea Gull at the Moscow Art in 1898. He soon found that organization too "bourgeois," moved on to St. Petersburg among the intellectuals. After the 1917 Revolution his anarchistic technique, based on the premise that any means is justifiable in bringing audience and actor closer together, made him for five years the master of theatrical revels in shell-shocked Russia...
Carpenters, painters, plasterers were making an unholy din in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. With deeply furrowed brow, Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. had retired to his office and was scowling at an unproductive typewriter. Scattered about the floors were strange objects of wood, rusted iron, marble, plate glass, polished brass. All of them were heavy and a great many of them were extremely large. With 150 paintings, they made up the largest exhibition of abstract art New York has yet seen...
...crucial instant the U. S. Government gave the exhibition some needful publicity when New York customs officials refused to accept 19 strange objects as nondutiable sculpture. They based their ruling on a judicial decision which states that sculpture as an art must depict "natural objects in their true proportion." Things were at an impasse since the avowed purpose of all abstract sculpture was to depict nothing at all but to stand on its own merits as pure design. President Conger Goodyear of the Modern Museum promptly protested...
...whether the Government is to determine by law what is art. In this instance there is no question as to the moral character of the objects under consideration. They are denied admission on the sole ground that they do not completely meet . . . court decisions for works of art." Finally the Government allowed the sculptural abstractions to enter the country under bond...