Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last tour of the States," said she, "they seemed more impressed by my title in Detroit than anywhere else. When I walked onto the stage and bowed in the usual way, what d'you suppose happened??the whole audience rose and bowed back. Jolly polite of the Middle Westerners, what...
...correspondents Professor Tsubouchi beamingly confided, last week, that the Library which will honor himself and Shakespeare will be the only one in Japan devoted exclusively to books of the drama, and will contain a stage upon which students will enact from time to time the whole cycle of Shakespeare-Tsubouchi plays...
...action, the excitements of this play are entirely cerebral though not for that reason ineffective. They lead to no action on the stage but to telling wrinkles in the cool and capable forehead of Eva Le Gallienne, as the lady who is complexedly distressed...
Pleasure Man was a ridiculous and stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...presented Scrub, with his cowardice and itching palm, whose happy phrase, "... and I believe they talked of me for they laughed consumedly" is one of the famous bits of the play. Archer and Aimwell, the Restoration gentlemen, played by Arthur Sircom and Milton Owen, fail to convince. Their stilted stage poise is an overdoing of the mannerisms of the epoch they mean to portray. The characters they should represent seem always just without their reach...