Word: basic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice and self expression. There has long been a lack of understanding and appreciation of the fundamental value and revolutionary character of the work he has been accomplishing, but it is coming to be more and more generally recognized now that the course is no fad, but has the basic idea of a new field to training and service such as can be found in very few places elsewhere. The 47 Workshop is the first course of practical dramatics which has been accorded regular academic credit on a common basis with other courses in the University, and great credit...
...abnormal increase in railroad fares, which makes the transportation of companies both difficult and expensive. The second reason may be found in the uniformly bad conditions in modern play-houses--meagre facilities for work, poor housing arrangements, and unhealthy atmosphere. The last, and, according to Mr. Eaton, the basic cause of the flagging interest in dramatics, both professional and amateur, lies in the present ascendency of the emotion picture as a national pastime...
...original and has "written rapid dramatic scenes giving an actor full opportunity to work himself into the spirit of the part". Working on that basis there is no reason why a Japanese student of English drama should not cut "Hamlet" of all its language, and leave only its basic melodrama "to give an actor full opportunity to work himself into the spirit of the part", which, of course, the original dramatist was unable to do and did not think...
...more nearly that he gets little or no graduate work, and begins only after receiving his commission, through his own ambition or the guidance of older officers and officers schools to gain a professional knowledge of his art. A West Point graduate now reports immediately after graduation to a basic school for officers for one year, and then at intervals in his career there are prescribed for him three more years of graduate work...
Certainly "Inheritors" belongs to the better class of American drama. Dealing as it does with but a single phase of a temporary physical problem it cannot hope, of course, to be classed with the greater works of literature--all of which are concerned with things more spiritual, more basic, less transitory. But, like Dickens, it has a purpose; like Kipling, it is intensely human. And these two qualities alone should be enough to justify its existence and classify its rank...