Word: stagey
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...Divorcens" is billed as comedy, but as such it were kinder not to judge it. The play falls far more readily into farce--and at times it is drawn thin to weakness. Today it seems weirdly stagey and forced. Characters we have in Cyprienne and Henri--how much due to their acting it is hard, to say--and momentarily in one or two of the others. Placed against "Half an Hour" the "comedy" seems mere piffle...
...credit is due Mr. Arthur S. Hills for his acting version of the play as well as for the details of the stage production. The performance as a whole was thoroughly finished. The action never lagged, and the stage "business," in the entire absence of any attempt to be "stagey" was eminently creditable...
...tobogganing are about the only sports that hold sway, seems rather absurd. Heretofore the candidates for the crew have practised during the latter part of the winter on hydraulic machines in which they went through the motions very well and derived many valuable points. But it was found "too stagey" and not in all respects like real water, and to obviate this difficulty there hasbeen constructed a tank which is to be filled with real Lake Saltonstall or rather Lake Whitney water of just about the same consistency and specific gravity as that of the River Thames. The tank...
...settings. The situations, though at times absurdly unnatural and forced, display evidence of power in the authors. Miss Tiffany as Biddy Ronan was exceptionally good and received the most applause, and Mr. Edison as Jim Fairon, made a decided hit. Miss Rand is a little inclined to be too "stagey," but on the whole interpreted the dual of Mrs. and Miss Standish in an intelligent manner. Next week Mr. Emmet appears as "Fritz...
...first scene was very realistic. The howling mob carried the spectator back to the days when the first Caesar ruled in Rome. But the tribunes who dispersed the mob seemed to feel the oppressive circumstances of their first appearance, and did their appointed task in a highly "stagey" manner. In the scene which brought the entire company before the audience. the action was fairly effective, although some crudeness was visible. Mr. Cummings, as Caesar, while fairly preserying the austere dignity of the Roman failed somewhat in the very difficult work required of him by appearing too unrelaxed and imperial...