Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with never a big aria or ensemble piece for the singers. The love avowal of Pelleas & Mélisande ("I love you." "I love you, too.") is sung to a magnificent orchestral silence. The opera therefore demands and gets reverent handling from singers who can look and act poetic on the stage. The first Mélisande, in 1902, was Mary Garden, who was given the role by the director of the Paris Opera Comique, although Debussy had agreed that Maeterlinck's newlywed wife (and longtime mistress), Georgette Leblanc, should have it. Maeterlinck, vexed, publicly hoped that the opera...
Five minutes of poetic blues piano improvisation in the best "Bix" Beiderbecke In a Mist tradition. A must for aficionados...
...which Miss Davis seems to revel. But her dashing Essex, Errol Flynn, moons through his scenes like a self-conscious school boy. And as if this were not enough of an indignity, the adapters of the play have handed her a script which has been completely stripped of its poetic beauty. It seems a pity that the screen did not have the daring to use Mr. Anderson's blank verse which was so effective when the play ran on Broadway a few years ago. This was almost a fine picture rather than merely a good one, but it muffled...
...Playhouse and its fellows. He proceeds to take up chronologically the work of George Kelly, Sidney Howard and the earlier plays of Maxwell Anderson: the achievement of Eugene O'Neill; comedy, from George S. Kaufman and S. N. Behrman to George Abbott; the so-called "social drama": and the poetic drama of Maxwell Anderson...
...English Playwright J. B. Priestley went to the block for When We Are Married, a stale joke protracted into a three-act play. Next, Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, after distinguishing himself with Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, mounted the scaffold for Kindred, a turgid work neither poetic nor rational. Finally, U. S. Playwright Gustav Eckstein was garroted for Christmas Eve, a confused tale of family life featuring (to no avail) a childbirth on stage...