Word: realisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reinhardt v. Kaiser. The year of Reinhardt's arrival in Berlin was a period of intense realism in the Teutonic theatre, when every dunghill and sweat bead in the dialogue found its concrete embodiment on the stage. His Imperial Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm II, would have it so, having set his imperial face against the art of Painter Lieberman, Poet Hauptmann, Composer Richard Strauss, all of whom found life so harsh as to require art's illusion to make it bearable...
Among other aviators, Commander Richard E. Byrd offered unsolicited praise to Jesse Lasky for the faithful realism with which the air maneuvers were pictured. The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether. Adam and Evil. Lew Cody plays both Adam Trevelyan and Adam's twin brother, Allan. Adam has wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman...
...John Quincy Adams, a Negro clown, got bathed with boiling tar. Sometimes the bully-boy stops punching to strew around some casual obscenities; sometimes he just reflects, idly, wistfully, comically. At all times his book is as close to life as a stake-driver's undershirt. Admirers of realism, and Americana, must roundly applaud...
...sighted, pouncing and swooping in from the North. A few moments later the station told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered by our regular artists have been growing stereotyped and dull...
...significance into a brilliantly told, well constructed boy-story. Like red pepper, alle gory should not be sprinkled so thickly that the reader sneezes. Author Masters brings a little too much of the technique of his poetry to novel-writing, but since his poetry is largely grim and biting realism, this treatment does not dam age his work irreparably...