Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than 50, there seems a good lesson in the activities of Pirandello. Why shouldn't a man keep his creative vitality until he reaches that period in which ihe can look at life with amused toler- ance, in which he is capable of interpreting life as a gay, mad, foolish show through which he has passed? Surely the wisest satire must be written by the old. The young can puncture bubbles; but only the man who has lived widely can destroy mountains...
...most recent triumphs include the Nuits Ensorcelées (Enchanted Nights) for the Paris Opera. He devised the plot, painted the scenery and selected the Chopin incidental music. Then Jacques Rouche, the director of the Opera, asked him to prepare a new ballet for next Spring, Folle Jeunesse (Mad Youth...
...Real, the Naval Lieutenant, sternly devoted to duty, came to the farm and fell in love with its mistress, in spite of himself-how he told Peyrol his plot to delude the English blockading fleet by allowing them to capture certain forged despatches-how Scevola, mad with jealousy, planned to murder Real, and Real, mad with duty, thought the only way out of the pitiful tangle was to let himself be captured with the forged despatches and so leave Arlette forever-and how Peyrol calmly outwitted the lot of them, saved Real for Arlette, removed Scevola from the scene...
...might get mad and chuck my racket...
...Ghost-mad, love-mad, revengefully sane?Hamlet as only Barrymore can do it?New Haven, Hartford, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, London? such is the itinerary laid out by Arthur Hopkins for his own John Barrymore and Shakespeare's own Hamlet...