Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...created several new countries and one of them presented to the world a dramatist of recognized skill and undisputed worth. Karl Capek, Czechoslovakian dramatist, was introduced into America by his grim melodrama, "R. U. R." The public accepted it enthusiastically, but in a bewildered fashion. Then came "The Insect Comedy." And then, in the spring of 1924, the Harvard Dramatic Club presented Capek's latest play, "The Makropoulos Secret." This story of a woman who lived 300-years ran successfully in New York...
...accomplished by ruminating upon that feeling. To hide it beneath any casual silence is but to increase it. And that the CRIMSON has no desire to do. Rather is it the purpose of the CRIMSON to get at the root of the matter and attempt in some fashion to eradicate what is at best puerile and futile...
Daisy Mayme. George Kelly became a playwright on the vaudeville circuit. At one time it was his business to fashion single act skits for the two-a-day. In doing so, he studied homely characters, setting them into homely situations, for the amusement of audiences that generally failed to appreciate the unobtrusive irony of the whole. His real genius, then as now, lay in a faculty for etching characters with acidic dialogue. The Torch Bearers, The Show-off Craig's Wife, have established him as playwright-director, have also established Rosalie Stewart, first to appreciate his genius...
...early eighteenth century Italian comedy was flourishing, but was written and produced in slap-stick style, with stock characters and stereo typed jokes. Gozzi broke from this familiar fashion, and while he kept most of the stock characters, like Harlequin and Pantaloon, he wove around them a romantic story, taken from the Arabian Nights and embellished with a good deal of humor not entirely of the slapstick variety. His work is in some sense the flower of the Comedie del Arte of early Italian drama, and it-will be interesting to see on the modern stage his combination...
...actual step has been taken toward a permanent system of this kind on a larger scale. Thus it is obvious that those who wish to see a central eating place, run by the University, where food can be obtained at sane prices and eaten in congenial surroundings in a fashion far removed from the tile armed manner so prevalent now will be doing themselves and those who follow them at Harvard a great service by trying out the Union-plan...