Word: thins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leisurely and poetic thoroughness about the piece which should recommend it to many. There is a fair performance by Ruth Chatterton, a good one by Ralph Forbes and an extraordinarily fine one by Robert Loraine, seasoned and admirable English actor who is too seldom lured to our actor-thin theatre...
...footsteps, but when one sees it, one can't help wondering how "Hedda Gabler" could ever be a popular vehicle. In the first place it is far too long for the stiff-backed seats of a theatre, taking over four hours in presentation. Moreover the incidents are thin and the action slight. Thirdly one feels continually that Ibsen is speaking from the stage and not from life, for his characters have a stilted unnatural manner of expressing themselves. In spite of this, there is something about the icily-cold. Hedda which holds one's fascinated attention...
...ideas that had come to them while they listened to the Manager Gatti's rolling syllables. The fact that he has engaged fewer new singers than ever before is inevitable, they pointed out; he has most of the good ones now. But significant is the fact that in the thin receiving-line of operatic debutantes there are three Americans. This is Manager Gatti-Casazza's second answer to the drone of those who protest that the Metropolitan ignores native talent. His first?a remark made last year?was: "Find me an American Caruso, bring me the score...
...juggling with her allied obligations. He declared that he could not "divulge" his plans, vowed that Germany had tried a capital levy three times unsuccessfully, swore that he would resign rather than introduce it, and apparently expected the conference to express confidence in his famed "Wizardry," now wearing rather thin. The upshot of the matter was that M. Herriot, after imploring M. Caillaux tearfully to throw up his lot with the capital levy, negotiated a compromise with the bald necromancer...
That any man could go to Paris and purchase 98 original bronzes by a sculptor who ranks in the very thin and isolated company of the world's greatest artists, appears incredible-would be impossible, if it were not that Rodin, all his life, created images in stone as rapidly as if to do so were a natural, an inescapable function of his body. An eminent critic once stated that Balzac, the novelist, was not an individual but one of Nature's forces, like fire or che wind; Rodin was treated with the same sort of primary electricity...