Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bachelor Father. "Legitimate" is a phrase used to describe those stage productions which are neither cinemas nor vaudeville acts; it is perhaps paradoxical that legitimate plays have of late shown an increasing tendency to concentrate upon the question of illegitimate children. Plots are hung often upon the query; ''Whose baby are you?" The Bachelor Father was brought to Broadway by David Belasco, who has so frequently been called the dean of Manhattan theatrical producers that he always wears a canonical collar. It deals gently and tenderly with a lovable old libertine who, in his dotage, calls his bastards...
...American singers trained in this country. For "Faust". Robert Simon has prepared a skillfully adapted libretto, while for the other operas English versions have been carefully, through less originally, made. With each piece the singing players seek equally the dramatic values of text, action and song. Vladimir Rosing, as stage director, is the author of these courses. The conductor is Frank St. Leger, formerly of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and of Convent Garden, London. These two men have worked with the company since last summer and have themselves prepared the entire repertoire...
...Opera," according to Rosing, "is of the theatre and for the theatre Public, a public that loves music but wants with it dramatic stage entertainment, that from the point of view of rational treatment, suggestive action, and characterization, will parallel any intelligently produced drama. From this angle 'Faust' has been approached. In Mephistopheles, who of course is the central figure of the story. Goethe was portraying the evil in man's own nature and the denial of morality and conscience, in the opinion of Rosing. This conception, depicting him as the protagonist of the negative to all human aspirations...
Faust, like the necromancers of his day, gazes into a crystal globe, in which the figure of Marguerite appears, just as it might be conjured up by Faust's own fancy. The philosopher declares for pleasure at any price. The stage is darkened for a moment, and there appear seated at a table the youthful Faust and the youthful Mephistopheles, the latter a leader in all the conscienceless episodes of the story to follow. Thus it is made reasonable to regard what happens as a vision to be entertained by a scholar himself. By these means the attempt is made...
...stage divertissement offers Our Gene in front of some of the best scenery that every emanated from the Publix studios. The exact idea is rather difficult to grasp but it seems there was a hunting party. Mr. Rodemich's frenetic drummer is quite delighted with his little hunting cap. It's a good thing too--the boy has not been a bit contented since he wore that toga plus a hair-ribbon come these two weeks...