Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prose writing on the whole stands out better than the poetry, in execution and humor. "The Poets in the Bowl" and "How the Spring Came to Hiawatha" are above the average in every respect. Here we have a true professional touch that makes up for the general poetic deficiency...
From the great human Bible poem, questionably dramatic, though mightily poetic, Stuart Walker has fashioned a stageable dialogue, shaped it into ordered climaxes, and presented it in a visible form of the greatest beauty. A dual prologue sets forth the circum- stances. Job himself, on his ash-heap, discloses the tortures of his body and mind, and listens to the pronouncements of his miserable comforters. Eilhu comes at last with youthful words of sympathy; the Voice of the Whirlwind makes known its will, and the Epilogue relates of Job's reward. That is all; no action, only dialogue in long...
...second and third movements of the Fantastic Symphony of Berlioz; in the graceful rhythm of the Ball and the pastoral idyll of the Meadows. In the latter movement the wood-wind choir did especially good work. But these are the only movements of the Symphony wherein Berlioz displays full poetic instinct. The work as a whole is married by that garish morbid-ness too frequent in his work. Mr. Monteux, however, is extremely successful with such "program music...
Collier a Poetic Beranger...
...especially the interpretation that should be praised. J. J. Collier was Beranger--a poetic, gentle Beranger--perhaps a little too "Quakerish", but this is the fault of the author and not of the actor. He was particularly good in his first dialogue with Talleyrand and in the last act. He had in Miss Googins a partner of the first rank. She played the role of Lisette, in her three successive impersonations, with intelligence, vivacity, wit, and charming youthfulness. She modulates her voice with rare perfection, and her acting is graceful without affectation, light with none of those "mannerisms" that...