Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many, the daring experiment of farcing what was obviously written as a farce, instead of playing it in the more usual " Oh Lord, here's a classic!" manner, seemed highly successful. As successful as could be, considering the fact that most of the Elizabethan cross-fire and comic patter, has, like nearly all good topical stuff, lost much of its sting with the passage of the slang and catchwords of its day. The plot (mistaken identities) was, of course, a hardy perennial even before Shakespeare- and there are few " familiar quotations " in the Comedy of Errors to help...
...brought, out. As Alfred, the friend, E. E. Clive appeared at his best. His work is always an outstanding feature of the Copley Players, and this week he was doing some of his best work, handling comedy with a certain and delightful ease and acumen, and turning from his comic scenes to those of pathos with skills. His final confession of the sacrifice he had made and of his own love for Sally was simple and effective. The very title of the play suggests that Cockney accents will be heard. And so they were, but not always clearly spoken...
...quite as interesting as the one on the opening night, though the Shouisky of Stanislavsky was outstanding, as was the Boris of Yershoff. Disappointment came in the Tsar as played by Katchaloff. There was no pitiable quality of his weakness, the emphasis seemed almost to go on the comic aspects of his futility. That was the tendency until the last act, when the actor held his audience spell-bound with sympathy. Then, too, the Tsarina of Madame Pashennaya did not have the plasticity that Madame Tchekhova could have brought to it. The remarkable thing about the Moscow Art Theatre Company...
...comic accident stranded him in Washington in 1912. At first he thought it a very dead town indeed, but his discovery of the Government caused him to change his mind. There was opportunity there. The Government, he saw, had oceans of money to spend, and, being a Government, it was a good deal easier to take money away from it than from any sort of private business, if you were clever and tactful. He decided he must have his finger in that golden...
These are the plays, which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: PEER GYNT-Ibsen's tragi-comic epic of the seeker of self-realization, effectively staged by Kommisashevsky, master of the Russian School of Expressionism, and competently acted by Joseph Schildkraut. Some of the settings by Lee Simonson mark the high points in his enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn...