Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play is supposed to take place in the brain of a man in half a second's time. Novel scenic effects heighten the realism and emotional effect of the play...
...Philanderer into rehearsal, attempted to put H actresses into the corsets which art called for by the date of the play, "in the '80's." Bitterly the daughters of a new freedom complained to the director, and would not lace themselves "into straitjackets. The costumes were altered, realism being abandoned...
...Home Maker was another commendable attempt that dealt not wisely but too well with realism. Its detailed drawing of the petty annoyances of business and domestic life become crowded and a trifle dull. The story that these details overwhelmed was one of a business man who hated business and his wife who hated ordering a household. Therefore they changed places and achieved serene success. Alice Joyce is the lady...
...other delegates were quite as pleased. They had gone to Geneva a hopeful band of enthusiastic idealists. At Geneva, they found it indispensable to pose as disillusioned realists. After Geneva, they were again idealists giving scope to their dream-a warless world. How far they had reconciled idealism with realism was a story told by the convention...
...Kluge Fuchslein (The Sly Little Fox), an opera by Leos Janáĉek is, in technique, the exact opposite of Jenufa (TIME, Dec. 15), his first opera, written 25 years ago. Jenufa was realism-a Czech Wirklichkeit; this work is phantasy. It tells the story of a fox-no histrionic creature, in whose caperings those of humanity are derisively reflected, but a sharp red beast out of the fen. Captured by a woodcutter, he bites a baby, kills a cock, runs away to the woods again. Meanwhile, one Terynka-a girl as pretty, wild...