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...cast is so constituted that the number of supers can be greatly increased over the necessary minimum. Since a large number of men, if only as cheering sections or local color, will heighten the effect of the play the coaches will try to take just as many as possible from those who appear for the initial try-outs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLD TRY-OUTS FOR "BROWN AT HARVARD" NEXT MONDAY | 3/27/1926 | See Source »

...when coupled with such an abrupt initial opening do much to destroy the artistic illusion of reality which is elsewhere carefully sustained. Mr. Haggard in "She" and "Ayesha" dealt with equally fastastic romantic themes, but he blended the elements of time and space in such a way as to heighten the reality of the supernatural...

Author: By F. DEW. P., | Title: Verse and Fantasy | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...three days prior to each game, allow the players no food whatever. This will heighten their natural animal ferocity. On the other days feed them sparingly on raw meat, which should be thrown to them, so they will have to fight for it among themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE DEGENERATE TIMES | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play is supposed to take place in the brain of a man in half a second's time. Novel scenic effects heighten the realism and emotional effect of the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHOSEN PLAY OF DRAMATIC CLUB MAKES NOVEL INNOVATIONS IN THEATRE WORLD | 10/27/1925 | See Source »

...dancing, which he regards as worse than "hugging on the sofa." Thus : "In the case of the dance, the two bodies are in closer proximity ! They are in rhythmical motion, one against the other, and the stimulus of music, as well as bodily con tact, is there to heighten the danger of wreck or ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Officers | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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