Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady from the Sea" is an education. It is a superb example of the ability of a playwright to shatter his play into two score small scenes, almost all dialogues, without breaking the emotional thread. From the first rise of the curtain, which reveals color disharmony rampant, to the last discordant blast of the steamer's whistle which closes the play, there is a jangling, an oppressive sultriness which distinguishes the play...
...Mass-hatred, doctrines of race-superiority, conflicts of color and religion are prevalent in the world today. And the last world struggle was a war to end war! Nations are now racing madly for the next war. It will mean the deathblow for Western civilization. Yet the trained intelligence of scientists has been devoted these last few years to the discovery of the best means of wholesale slaughter. Poison gas has been so perfected by their work that its use in the next war will mean racial murder. Cities will be blotted out as trenches were...
...Board of Trade, her restaurants, clubs, night joints, aristocratic lakefront and booming South Side are superficial, gaudy pictures; turbulent impressionism. Nine-tenths of the book is conversation; rapid, clear, forceful, but no more racy of the certain day than it is revealing of the certain people. There is much color, but it is plastered on in hurried, florid gobs. Author Cohen, to whom high praise is due for a tremendous task well tried, betrays his inexperience chiefly by distrusting his ability to write with care as well as power. All these shortcomings notwithstanding, U. S. fiction has a new dynasty...
Author Hergesheimer is repeatedly accused of vulgarity, never of slack workmanship. Hot color, detail as meticulously perfect as a showgirl's makeup, are his special contribution to serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...
...story: a proud nobleman forced to labor as servant to a haughty countess conquers and is conquered in love. After all these years and years of nobility in difficult incognito, those who still relish such fare will find the Countess Maritza thoroughly edifying, highly seasoned with color and music, harmoniously staged. The same romantically inclined folk will overlook, in the general glamor, a turbulent succession of flat puns and desperate buffoonery. They will even forgive the unfortunate costume foisted upon handsome Songster Walter Woolf in the third act. They will thrill to the tinsel, to the song "Play "Gypsies...