Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broadway-Home life among cabaret dancers. Sustained realism...
...less than six Adamses are listed on the program, and before the final curtain falls, another one has been added. All of them cover their roles adequately. For real realism, however, they are not in a class with two minor characters. One of these, Maggie, played by Beulah Bondi, in the role of the servant who has been with the family so long that she has become, not a servant, but a retainer, fairly runs away with the show. The other, Frank Owens, nee Fleming Ward, adds the other true touch by playing the victim in the fight scene...
...guns" rumbled past-they were made of wood. Finally 25,000 soldiers marched, skirmished and countermarched amid clouds of "poison gas"-the gas was a nonpoisonous chemical fog, the latest invention of German scientists. Thus the traditional autumn maneuvres of the German army took place last week with vivid realism, despite the disarming of Germany under the Treaty of Versailles...
WHEN Mr. Koussevitsky presents the "Pines of Rome" with a canned nightingale as a member of his orchestra, he does not create an effect to be condemned for its novelty as realism. And if anyone were to paste grandfather's own moustache upon his crayon portrait in the parlor, the achievement would have tradition enough in the stage realism of a century ago, when real water-falls might be seen gushing from a hole in a canvas drop during the course of a spectacular and dripping melodrama. In many details of illusion the twentieth century harks back to the resources...
...years when there was famine in the land that the book must claim importance, illustrating how the freedom of the stage by the Theatre Regulation Act of 1843 and the placing of legitimate drama on a competitive basis, the creation of new taste in the audience by pioneers of realism such as Kemble in Shakespeare, Madame Vestris in farce and burlesque, the smaller theatre and new technical developments, the new school of acting, the reforms in management beginning with Macready and culminating in Robertson, all prepared for the revival of good dramatic literature in the last three, decades...