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...American innocent abroad has long been the butt of foreign laughter and scorn. In fact foreigners, from Charles Dickens to Lady Asquith, have journeyed even to our own front stoop to voice all manner of criticisms, the burden of which has ever been that "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers". "Little", they tell us, "do we see in art which is ours...
There are two kinds of tragedy: terrible and tearful. When you saw John Barrymore carried up the front stoop of Elsinore and off into the West, you didn't feel like crying. A tragic climax such as that one gives a feeling of mystery and terror much more than of pity. When, on the other hand, you see Camille dying by inches in the postponed embrace of Armand Duval, you do want to weep...
...single set used in Catskill Dutch' represents the interior of the 'stoop of a Catskill mountain farm house", stated Miss Eleanor Eustis in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, speaking of the scenery which she has designed and painted for the play to be produced at the first public performance of the 47 Workshop on February...
...stoop' is a large wooden 'lean to' built against the side of farm-house and supported by wooden beams", she continues. "But if it were removed the house would still be complete against wind and weather. The house of gray-white stone masonry, appears at the side of the stage to the left of the audience, showing a casement window and steps leading up to a "Dutch" door. The stoop swings around the corner of the house at the left and back of the stage, where an unseen window admits a flood of sunset light...
...stoop is used in the summer months as a living room and dining room" Miss Eustis explained, "where wool, peppers, onions, and corn are hung up about the room to dry. In the first act on a late September afternoon in 1820, before the marriage of Peetcha, Case Steenkoop's son; everything is in disorder. There are bits of dingy rag carpet on the floor; a single harness, cider jug, horse pall, and other things have been left carelessly about the room. By the second act, five years later, a woman has entered the house, the room is much neater...