Word: bouccicault
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From the Restoration to the middle of the nineteenth century, technical advances and an increasing mass audience led slowly toward realistic presentation. Then the gifted Irishman Dion Bouccicault came to this country and put the first real door in a flat, and the first real rug on the floor, to the amazement of both company and audience, and started preaching the jehad of Realism. His ideal was to show everything on the stage, to leave nothing to the imagination. His disciple was David Belasco, who gave tremendous impetus to the movement and at one time put a complete Child...
...with the same furore that attends his first nights wherever he goes. The play abounds in laughable situations, and Mr. Dixey in turn impersonates a statue, a village belle, Mr. Irving, a barber, and a dry goods clerk with infinite ease and cleverness. Mr. Richards' imitations of Couldock and Bouccicault are exceedingly laughable. There is no lack of pretty music, pretty faces and pretty figures. Adonis is like Venice - "See it and die; for you have then seen...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - Dion Bouccicault, "The Jilt...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - Dion Bouccicault, "The Jilt...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - Dion Bouccicault in "The Jilt...