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...rarely. The Selected Poems this spring will be the first since Mountain Interval in 1916. Robert Frost's poetry is essentially dramatic. It is inevitable for him some day to write a full length play. He has already done short ones. He knows that he is a dramatist, but it is characteristic of him that he will write four or five plays in his mind before a word of one reaches paper. " I like to entertain ideas," he said to me not long ago. " I like that word entertain." Life is to him a thing as bitter...
...littleness, all the puniness of man, is compassed in this one heartrending appeal to save a Son--an appeal not granted. The dramatic rise from the Toy scene to Man's curse, uttered on the death of his son, is swift and of undeniable power. Here the dramatist is at his height--and the actors were not far behind...
...clock tomorrow evening at the 47 Workshop in Lowe Massachusetts Mr. L. K. Anspacher will speak informally on the problems of the drama. Mr. Anspacher, a prominent lecturer and dramatist, is the author of "Unchastened Woman", and other plays of note...
...dramatist, Leonid Andreyev, whose vital drama, "The Life of Man," the Dramatic Club will produce during the second week of December, is the most interesting product of contemporary Russian literature. Abandoning the older traditions that prevailed from Ostrovski to Tolstoi, and passing by the school of Tchekov, Andreyev has brought to the theatre a unique form of art, the rich possibilities of which he is still developing...
...dramatist must not carry off all the honors. In reading, one might question the success of the play. But there are infinite opportunities for unsuspected effects in acting, and the Jewett players as cast have "come across" with uncanny cleverness. Miss Willard as Dolly shows 100 percent improvement over her last year's powers. Each phrase and gesture counted; she was consistently trivial, consistently lovable, like Dulcy, in her ingenious sympathy for her friend and her naive discomfort over her bills. Mr. Clive was a bit slow in falling into the husband's character, but when he reached the famous...