Word: realisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough for college dramatic clubs and workshops merely to advance the mechanical technique of staging plays. A race of dramatists is even more necessary. If the prediction to Halcott Glover that by a rebirth of idealism drama will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well...
...started life as a newspaper woman; there is much of her more intimate story, I fancy, in her most ambitious recent work Certain People of Importance. She is unlike her husband and his brilliant brother, the late Frank Norris, for she is incurably romantic. In her drabbest pages of realism- and there are not many of them- she maintains the values of sentiment and emotion. Her husband, however, writes with unusual objectivity. He proceeds on a character-basis he believes true and he is faithful to that truth, which is often a trifle bitter...
...insane effect produced by filtering all impressions through the distorted vision of one character. The style is not in the least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective. The author records his chronicle of scenes and persons and action with an abundance of that sort of exact detail which makes "realism the only method for romance." If his style maybe said to ring with any prevailing tone, except the tone of accuracy and sincerity, it is a tone, not of desperation or weariness with life, but of constant feeling for color and beauty...
...woefully apart. Despite the everyday naturalness of his domestic shambles, he makes out no general case for marriage as a vise and a vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates in suffering. He pities himself with much fervor. Doris Keane, his costar, shows her customary sensitive discrimination, but reads her lines like the Psalms. Catherine Collins as the street walker is the one splotch...
...chaste Vesta Volodia is out of the Russian spirit, though in itself a good story. In this it is robbed of the gentle sting of parody. "Silent as a cat he rose to his feet and swung his great two-handed sword over her head." This is romance, not realism. And I feel sure Vesta's compatriots wouldn't let their sense of romance run away with them after her fashion...