Word: ibsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock: For the wandering scholar Scandinavian 50 provides useful literary, artistic, and social cultural information about the Scandinavian countries. This can be acquired with no knowledge of the Scandinavian languages. Returning after a year's absence, Robert Chapman brings with him drama from Ibsen to Helman. The stage is Emerson D. History of Religions 101b offers a unique opportunity. Interested students can become Hindus, Brahmins, Buddhists, and Moslems--for about a week or two apiece. For those who prefer, there are also selected Christian heretical doctrines...
...Lampy fling an antique jest And the Monthly gas on Ibsen...
...even that would hardly have bothered Shaw. If he could not find a controversial subject in the concert hall, he got one from outside. He took for granted that a music column was just the place for discussions of a Dickens novel, the French Revolution, the paintings of Tintoretto, Ibsen's Wild Duck, the salaries of bishops. "Musical criticisms," wrote he, "like sermons, are of low average quality simply because they are never discussed or contradicted." What 20th century music needs, among other things, is more sermons like Preacher Shaw...
First Sweater Girl. The critics compared Harrigan to Euripides. Plautus Shakespeare, Dickens and Ibsen. Hart was dubbed "a genius" and the "Irish Apollo." In one peak five-year span Harrigan and Hart played to 10,000 people a week, netted $200,000, and gave the New York stage its first sweater girl-she wore no corset...
...concentrating on literal settings and social messages, Ibsen's and Chekhov's disciples have slighted theme, plot, character development and language-the things that gave the theater popular appeal-and have produced a theater suffering from "muscular atrophy" and conditioned by the idea that the playwright, and not his audience, knows what makes good drama. ("The playwright no longer has to die to reach Parnassus. He starts out there...