Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...countless U. S. theatricians who have reported on the dramatic wonders in the Soviet Union, none has brought back a more thoroughgoing account of what goes on behind the footlights of Russia's dramatic capital than Morris Houghton, who last week published his findings in Moscow Rehearsals* Mr. Houghton was one of that group of stage-struck youngsters, whom in the early 1930's Princeton sent into show business by way of the Triangle Club and Theatre Intime. He set Carrie Nation, stage-managed the Guild's Both Your Houses and in 1934 landed a Guggenheim Fellowship...
...Moscow theatres, each of which has its own technical establishments and all of which perform a repertory of from four to 15 plays, Observer Houghton determined to study four thoroughly: the Vakhtangov Theatre, the Moscow Art Theatre, the Krasnaya Presnaya or Realistic Theatre, the Meier-hold Theatre. At each of these institutions he spent conscientious days backstage at schools and rehearsals. But Mr. Houghton's impressions, like a cat's eyes, become most vivid at night when he is sitting out front...
...Chekhov's play on its curtain, remains "a spot sacred and awesome to the man of the theatre. . . . The audience seems to talk in lower tones here; their hair is combed more carefully. Their shirts are cleaner than in other theatres." The Days of the Tnrbins provided Observer Houghton's first impression. The play was an extremely sympathetic treatment of a White family during the horrors of the 1917-22 civil war. First presented eight years ago, it was promptly banned by Soviet censors. Moscow now regards it as one of its most popular plays. Mood and rhythm...
...Realistic Theatre, Observer Houghton got into the swing of Russian experimentation. Play was called The Iron Flood. Spectators were kept waiting in the theatre's foyer until suddenly two actors dressed like soldiers went tearing through the crowd carrying water buckets. There upon doors opened into an auditorium domed with sky blue cloth. At one end was a large earthen mound. On it was camped a detachment of Russian soldiers, their women and children. On two sides were seats. "We spent four hours with the Red Army in the field- that was all," recalls Observer Houghton. "The wounded dragged...
CHRISTINA - Claude Houghton - Doubleday, Doran...