Word: demi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole no more successful than attempting to raise one's self by one's boot-straps. Experiments on the professional stage without that scorned attribute, business success, can never hope to accomplish a permanent reform. Until the representative audience can appreciate a steady diet of good plays, the "Demi-Virgin" type of production will persevere. Unless this outside education of the audience can be accomplished, it may be necessary to apply St. John Ervine's heroic remedy a moratorium of the drama a closing of all theatres until the audience is ready to make the spiritual effort to meet...
Mason and Keeler in "Married" would, or should be at the top of an unusual bill, which this week's is not. As it is, this eleven playlet after the better Hopwood manner (you know where the scene is laid) is worth a hundred "Getting Gertie's Garters" and "Demi-Virgins", and shows what vaudeville can be when it tries to break the spell the mawkish hack writers. Mr. Mason has all the "fat" lines, and he is on the crest of the wave all the time. The rafters were loosened and the audience was left hungry for more...
...bent and lost control--he laughs, capers, and altogether offers a more convincing counterfeit of madness than the actors unchanging tragic mask allowed his most deliberate efforts. A little more of lightness, at those points where the author saw their need, might bring this demi-god to our level...