Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rescued from the paralyzing limbo between amateurishness and professionalism. Much as he might sigh for the old days, it is obviously, too late to regain for the game a lost amateur standing. The present status is impossible. Onward, then to a business basis. The players must of course remain amateurs, but the game should be professionalize. This happy device would at once save honor and avoid paying salaries to the players. A stock company should obviously be floated, with the alumni subscribing for the shares. Only a few graduates would be allowed to participate, as their loyalty to the team...
...abolish the footlights in reality, as some propose, does not mean yet to abolish them in our imagination; it must be done so that-the spectator, as if happening to find himself on the stage, that is, the place of action, will lose sight of the footlights; they will remain behind him; in other words, they will destroy themselves...
...dramatic methods of expression of the dramatic experiences are reduced, as we know, first of al to words. But the unsatisfactoriness of these methods is evident; we hear more with the eyes than with the ears, and this in my opinion is in the nature of the theatre. There remain gestures, artistically expressive gesticulation, mimicry in the broad sense of the word, the movements expressing our agitations and feelings...
...does the room or the plain or the forest, the place of the appearance of the ghost, not change at the moment of suggestion of terror in his features: why do the coloring and light remain unchanged, just as if nothing had happened. This is not yet monodrama. Monodrama must present the exterior spectacle in correspondence with the internal spectacle. This is the whole essence...
Each year there is a season of mystical nuptials. The population of He des Dames multiplies apace. With Phaon growing into a handsome youth, and in view of certain semi-authenticated episodes, Anni Prachtel and a few cynics remain dubious of the annual parthenogenesis. But they preserve the myth, and five years after the first crop of childen, the virgin mothers feel so self-sufficient that the disposal of male offsprings is an issue. Some are for Amazonian exposure on the mountains, some for the method that elevates voices and renders docile. Instead, compassion prevailing, an isolation colony, Manland...