Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle...
...contest in which Milton did not show up well, for it only managed to pull the game out by the narrow margin of 7 to 6. This was early in the season, however, and since that time the team has settled down into a most effective style of play...
...Boston. The American production offered many interesting features, and differed greatly from either the Yiddish of the Moscow performances. Pauline Lord's Nastya was a fine achievement, the outstanding one of the performance. But the weak spot was the central character of the play, the Luka. In true American style he was made a sentimental figure, who fight have strayed in from a stained glass window. And the play was largely played in enveloping darkness. The Yiddish Art Theatre agreed with the Hopkins production in keeping the third act in the cellar, but there were other noticeable differences. The Nastya...
Peculiarly written, in a style somewhat reminiscent at moments of the late eighteenth century and at its occasional worst absurdly recollective of the incomparable Daisy Ashford, The Orissers, for all its minor faults, fairly vibrates throughout with cumbrous but genuine power...
...blue blood. He manages to stay in Harvard just about a year and a half. Then, after a painful scene in University 4, he goes west, heaves coal for a year, and becomes a man worthy of the girl he loves. It's not a startlingly unusual plot. The style is a bit childish in spots and sometimes a little too melodramatic, but never uninteresting. We suspect that Mr. Husband wrote rather hurriedly and failed to revise his work, since there are a number of contradictory statements. For instance, on page 31 we read that Arthur Clark...