Word: chekov
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Next to modern escapist drama, voters signified a desire for modern tragedy, as Eugene O'Nell placed third in the playwright preferences of the interviewees. Behind O'Nell followed Noel C. Coward, Henrick Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Anton Chekov, and Thornton Wilder. stated, "There was an almost intense monotony of response, which may perhaps be indicative of the stereotyped taste pattern of American audiences in general, and more particularly a definite escapist sentiment...
...published several novels and plays, some verse, a biography of Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins, and a host of short stories that critics have called the best in Ireland since James Joyce's Dubliners. "O'Connor," said the late great William Butler Yeats, "is doing for Ireland what Chekov did for Russia...
...gentle wistful tragedy. The Harvard-Radcliffe production, with superior music by Irving Fine, dances by Mary Small, and Phyllis Stohl's generally tight, workman like direction, gets this across with a few lapses. Such are a slow third act in which the actors are a little too influenced by Chekov, and a few overplayed moments in the first two acts...
Essentially a series of vignettes or period pieces, the play is of a sort unfortunately unfamiliar to American audiences. Lorca, his admirers to the contrary, is not "the Spanish Chekov," although like much of Chekov's, "Dona Rosita" is frequently talky, mildly critical of society, and tied together by mood rather than plot action. But where Chekov is penetrating in character portrayal and development, Lorca is intentionally superficial and static. Describing his play as "a poem of 1900 Granada, divided into various gardens, with scenes of song and dance," the author uses Rosita too much as a symbol...
...three stars of the Ballet Russe, after discussing everything from Chekov to Chico Marx with the sheiks of the Bow Street magazine and their friends, were initiated as honorary daughters of Mother Advocate by president Marvin Barrett '42. The last personage to be initiated as an honorary member of the board was President Conant...