Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge School of the Drama, born through the demands of Harvard undergraduates for some medium of expression in the realm of the theatre, will complete its third semester this Spring. The announcement yesterday that the Carnegie Foundation has endowed it with the money necessary to renovate the interior of the Rogers Building is indicative of the firmness with which this activity has become a part, if not an official one, of Harvard University. Consciously separated from the Little Theatre movement, and allowing the interested student a training ground for practical play-writing and production, the School has completely served...
...into an effective farce in silent cinema days, starring Harry Myers; then it became a successful musi-comedy. But not until its present metamorphosis into a talking picture has a form been reached in which the many-faceted material is properly displayed. Few creative works are translatable from one medium to another, but A Connecticut Yankee is no less trenchant as a picture than as a novel; it is wonderful entertainment, rippling with chuckles, expanding often into resonant Twainian belly-laughs. Director David Butler has omitted the sociological satire of the novel. He has concentrated on the humor of anachronism...
...sake will ever be really important in the sound picture, but in combination with visual forms it still has far to go. What the movies need now, which the filming of "Oedipus Rex" should illustrate, is the development of an art and technique peculiarly suited to the medium of the screen. Chaplin has worked out one type of movie style, the silhouette is another, but in most cases movies are but literal translations of an art which is at its best in the theater...
Radio is a wonderful medium for drama. The color and quality of the soul shows in the voice. Your "little brown man" speaks in correct, slow, oddly-accented English. I visualize an unassuming dreamer; a man possessed of an incorruptible logic and a driving will of iron...
Radio debating necessitates a new technique. Emphasis will naturally center on the expression of personality through the medium of the voice alone in an attempt to replace the loss of the visible element. But this fact should serve as an added attraction to increase activity in debating...