Word: civics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ladies who sing Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin are heavy, Teutonic, have small flare for acting. That a knight should trouble to rescue them is often unbelievable. But at the new Chicago Civic Opera House last week an audience was pleasurably surprised. The Elsa .who came pathetically before the king was slender, lovely, of exceeding grace. That her voice was commensurately light mattered little to those who watched her. She used it as skillfully as she did her hands...
...CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE?Eva Le Gallienne's rendezvous for those who still care for drama as a fine...
...other words, Fedya is a great character, a coiled complex of frailty and nobility, such as his creator Tolstoy and that other great Russian, Dostoievsky, were particularly apt to conceive. As acted by Jacob Ben-Ami and a large company of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre (including a witty bit by the directress herself), most of the values of this celebrated tragedy are apparent. Egon Brecher's depiction of Alexandrov, an artistic hobo with delusions of grandeur, is an uproarious triumph if you can overlook its tragic perspectives...
...CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE-Eva Le Gallienne's rendezvous for those who still care for drama as a fine...
...CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE?Eva Le Gallienne's fine art theatre justifies the name (different play nightly...