Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have come into this interest by the back door, so to speak. They are for the most part elderly men, whose sense perceptions may have been blunted and whose interest in death and its consequences is natural. Many of them have lost near friends or relatives, some under tragic circumstances. It is noteworthy that no contemporary psychologist of America (where exact experimental methods have had their greatest development) is a believer in, or even a sympathizer with, the spiritistic hypothesis...
Joseph De Grasse has done more than his share for the welfare of the play by his uncommonly even direction. Mr. De Grasse, also, is courageous. He has permitted a tragic ending. Charles Ray's rival for the lady's favor receives her promise true. His name is Willie Brown...
...difficult to think of a more perfect performance of the part. He played him with humor, and yet with sympathy, played him so quietly and so humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness of him in the last act seemed all the more tragic. The Nastya of Alla Tarassova was made of less common clay than that of Pauline Lord's. She was a prostitute, she was sunk to the extremities of the life seen in the play, but there was still quality of beauty, and appeal to her. With the Moscow Art Theatre...
Stanislansky, playing the part of the brother in "The Cherry Orchard", worried long over the proper intonation for this passage, a drop from tragic heights to--anchovies. He was satisfied only when he recalled an incident from his iron-worker days in Moscow. He remembered hearing a father whose eldest son had just died describe to him the proper way to cook...
...human hunt. Thousands of plain people, reading the lurid three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel" and man of mystery, John Mitchell; the dark and debonnaire South American cave man, Guimares; the tragic mother, Mrs. Keenan; the crafty sleuths hot on the scent of the blackmailing murderer; the poor, humiliated wife in Palm Beach; or even the colored maid, Billie Bradford, discreet and loyal confidant of the white beauty and her "important" lover...