Word: belascos
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...That is true in greater or less degree whether the scene be a forest, waving like a set of green banners behind the proscenium, or a street in the Venetian ghetto of the Merchant of Venice, with every stick and stone and human being arranged with indefatigable precision by Belasco, king of realists. The spectator never can quite persuade himself that he is peeking through a chink in the fourth wall of the room, hiding behind a poison ivy vine in the woods, or bobbing about behind a wave on the ocean...
...proposed National Theatre comes at a critical moment. With Augustus Thomas engineering the project and such geniuses in their varied fields as David Belasco, George M. Cohan, Arthur Hopkins and the Shuberts promising their full support, some highly interesting results are to be looked...
...presenting "Tiger Rose" as its offering this week, the St. James has undertaken to do a very difficult thing. Two groat factors in the success of this play in New York were that Lenore Uirich was cast to perfection as the French Canadian girl, and that David Belasco, in his scenery and scenic effects, had left nothing to the imagination. Take away the charm of Lenore Uirich's acting and the perfection of the stage settings, and you are hard put to it to find a substitute. If the theatre-goer is sensible enough not to expect...
...scenery was excellent, and the setting in the last act would have been a notable feature in the production if its filmsiness had not destroyed all the illusion And the dawn which Mr. Belasco made creep up imperceptibly, "came up like thunder", if not more so. In contrast with this hasty dawn, the thunderstorm in act two was realistic in its slow approach...
...Barrymore calibre who have been forced to make use of totally inadequate vehicles in the past few years, would get the long looked for opportunity to play in roles of their own choosing. The public would have a standard by which to measure the private productions of Belasco, the Shuberts, the Theatre Guild, and the rest; forcing the managers to keep at their best level. The opportunity for the revival of old plays, classics, and above all the education of popular taste, although the latter is sometimes questioned as an advantage would at least have for the first time...