Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dismissal (of Bismarck), an historical antimonarchist play by Emil Ludwig, was produced for the first time at Berlin and has caused a good deal of comment in the press; although the people, surprisingly enough, refrained from any outward manifestation of their contempt or approval. The absence of rotten eggs and other uncomplimentary gifts is considered by the antiroyalist press as nothing short of a 1923 miracle; even the monarchist journals are not too enthusiastic for Wilhelm. Herewith some comments...
...Lokal Anzeiger, Berlin daily: " Why did Kaiser Wilhelm try to suppress this play? Well, he fares very badly in it; but, despite his charges of malice against the author, it must have painfully struck his conscience that much of it is only too good a likeness, is only too true. Of course, Emil Ludwig could not have written this play before the war. He had first to free himself from the conventional prejudices and fetters from which we all suffered then. We all look on these things with different eyes now that a catastrophe has opened thema catastrophe for which...
...German adaptation of Channing Pollock's The Fool, by Frank Reicher, will be produced in Berlin in the fall...
...weeks perfecting plans for this mammoth production, which has a cast of 2,000 persons, and then re-turn to Germany for the summer to assemble his staff of artists for the six productions he will make under Mr. Gest's management next year, and to produce in Berlin Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and Zoe Akins' Papa...
...director Brahm of the Frie Volks-bühne, but in Gorky's Night Lodging (played by the Moscow Art Theatre as The Lower Depths) he brought Realism to its highest point. Together with Gordon Craig he was the father of intimacy in the theatre. But in his Berlin and Munich productions he showed himself the master of large scale dramatic pageantry as well...