Word: stagey
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Dates: during 1885-1885
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...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...