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...never heard of Sudermann, or his most popular drama, "Magda", in which Madame Bertha Kalich is now playing at the Plymouth, he would yet recognize it, before he had seen the first act through, as one of the dramas of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as belonging to the period of Ibsen, Zola, Hardy, and the other great questioners of the established order of things. The predominant note which Sudermann strikes in "Magda" is one of protest and incidentally of inevitable tragedy. The comparison with Ibsen's "Ghosts" and the other Ibsen's dramas of a like nature...
...Magda" it is the old Prussian paternalism, proud, self-righteous, and unbending, against the new spirit of freedom and the unbreakable will of a talented, restless woman. Magda, driven to leave her home early in life by the narrow and unsympathetic intolerance of her father returns twelve years later, a great and universally honored singer. But before attaining this pinnacle of success she had gone through a long period of degradation and poverty. She had been true to herself always, but realizes that her father with his stern and limited conception of morality could never comprehend the irregularities...
...Whether "Magda" would seem like the great play it does without a Madame Kalich or a Sarah Bernhardt is open to serious question. The part of Magda was created for a great actress--what it would be without one we fortunately are not called upon to determine. Madame Kalich in every way measures up to the difficult requirements of a part, which to be great demands greatness in its interpretation. Trained as she has been in the careful school of the French theatre, she displays a perfection, a precision in the sightest detail of the dramatic art which is rarely...
Kuno Franke said of "Magda" some years ago, "It is one of those literary thunderclouds which are charged with the social and intellectual electricity of a whole age." And, inspite of women's suffrage, the widespread influence of modernistic schools of thought, and the unhampered liberty of the rising generation, it brings up an issue which today is far from dead--the great thundercloud of 30 years ago is still anything but a pale glimmer of heat lightening on the distant horizon...
...abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania was sitting quietly on a divan at his Paris home one morning last week. Beside him sat a red-haired Rumanian Jewess, Mme. Magda Lupescu. A prying world knows that they reside together and that she is enceinte (TIME, Dec. 13). A sea coal fire glowed upon the hearth and Carol read aloud, in thoughtful domesticity, from the morning newspaper...