Word: ibsenism
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...Sonja Henie won the world's championship ten times running, an unequaled record. She also won the seven European championships she entered, and she won the last three Olympic Games of her amateur era. She became a national idol such as Norway had not worshipped since Ibsen. Above the iron bedstead in her chamber in her small Oslo apartment hung autographed pictures of Hitler and Mussolini. England's Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing her before every public appearance. Germany's Crown Prince Wilhelm...
...Salop's success does not depend merely on price-cutting. Even more spectacular is what he does to a book's appearance. A collection of Ibsen plays (his first big success) was made from Modern Library plates, but reprinted on larger, thicker paper, with the imprint: Norwegian Publications, Oslo, Norway. Another Salop success was a 1,136-page volume titled Five Sinners and a Saint priced at $1.69. Inside this new literary package readers discovered six time-worn staples-the autobiographies of Madame P'ompadour, Benvenuto Cellini, De Quincey, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, St. Augustine. Another time Salop...
Among the Norwegian books shown are some of the great early works of this literature, in manuscript and printed form. One case is devoted to the works of Bjornstjerne Bjornson, modern Norwegian poet, novelist, and dramatist; and another case to the works of Ibsen...
Says Carroll: "I write as Ibsen did. I take the life of a small village and enlarge it to encompass all human life." It is finding a theme that takes time with him; writing comes easy. He plans no more religious plays. The theme of his next work, Kindred, is that a common love for art can bind people more strongly than blood or nationality...
...theatre around him does not interest Odets much. He goes to about three shows a year. He has stopped reading all playwrights but Shakespeare and Ibsen: "I have nothing to learn from American plays any more." Acting he calls "a whorish thing." But now & then he would like a good part in someone else's play, simply to retain his feel of the stage...