Word: themes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Elizabethan masques by Ben Jonson. There will be 5,000 people in the cast of "Caliban"; the stage will be built on three levels; the scenic and lighting effects will be of the most artistic type; and the music will be of a character beautifully adapted to the theme and dramatic action...
...this masque Mr. MacKaye has taken the Shakesperian character of "Caliban" in "The Tempest" as a motif, and through the dramatic action and interludes he symbolizes the struggles of mankind through history and dramatic art to higher ideals of civilization. Only out-of-doors could such an ambitious theme with its pictures and tableaux be presented...
...Andrews has chosen an appealing theme, framed it in an unusual, glowing setting, developed it with truthful, entertaining people, and phrased it in clear, emotional, satisfying dialogue. It is perhaps in plotting that the author is as yet least sure, for, while it hangs together excellently in its early parts, towards the end the play loosens perceptibly in structure. It may be, however,--or so it seems--that injudicious, wholesale cutting has removed necessary material and caused the last act to seem altogether wrong in its emphasis. The first two acts are splendid; the third wavers momentarily and falls...
...Eileen," formerly "Hearts of Erin," Mr. Herbert is in his very happiest musical vein, the love themes being handled with exquisite melodies, the "ensemble" music being particularly vivacious and stirring, and a new triumph for the composer appearing in his patriotic songs, the dash, rhythm, and swing of which brought repeated encores from an audience whose applause was induced rather by a spontaneous appreciation of the score than by any duty as descendants of Erin's Isle--which element does not characterize Boston audiences (?)--to commend the spirit of the songs. Perhaps Mr. Blossom has not constructed so definite...
...Paulding '18 perhaps best appeals to a normal college public with delicate reminiscence of a childhood love-dream. The author unfortunately at first sets an apparently older tone. There is entertainment also in Percival Reniers '16's article, "Speaking of Trifles," where his potpourri of forced daily themes resembles a theme corrector's nightmare. Of the prose pastels, "Charity" too obviously allies itself in subject and manner to Spoon River...