Word: realisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Practical Philosophy of Realism," Professor Perry, Emerson...
...Young tells the reader that there is not a word of truth in his whole novel. Not that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood on the living room carpet and all that sort of thing...
...There is nothing routine about these productions of familiar operas. Rosing, the director, is full of original ideas, which are carried into execution in a spirited manner by members of the company. The settings of Robert Edmond Jones are a happy blend of impressionism and historical realism. The operas are sung in English, not in the old hack translations, but in careful adaptations of the words to the music by Robert Simon, the music critic of The New Yorker. For 'Faust' he has prepared a skilfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, though less...
Adam and Eve, the black and elaborate magic of James Branch Cabell's Something About Eve, should please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
...order to fire each raises his rifle so that the bullets strike above the woman's head. Nurse Cavell, however, falls down in a faint and an officer steps forward and despatches her with a pistol." The pistol used in making the film was, by way of meticulous realism, a German Luger (see photograph...