Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Twelvetrees has been repeatedly miscast since her first and best picture, "Swing High." An ingenue with an appealing trick of making her eyes tragic and a way of laughing and crying by turns, she would have a great deal to give to a fragile re mane like "Sunrise." But instead, the vastly commonplace Miss Gaynor usurps these roles, and Miss Twelvetrees is forced to play gangsters" molls and cast-off courtesans. It is not her fault that she has had to grimace in the grand manner or shrill thinly in melodrama. In "Panama Flo", she deals more skillfully than...
...with three letters which trace the title of the set form its presentation to Lincoln. An accompanying note reads. "The story of that last Sunday, and the dramatic scene on board the steamer when President Lincoln read the passage form 'Macbeth' which afterward seemed a presage of his own tragic death is recalled by this gift...
...news TIMEworthy though tragic, thanks...
...TRAGIC AMERICA-Theodore Dreiser-Liveright...
Aristotle's famous theory of dramatic katharsis, according to which men are supposed to purge themselves of dismal emotions by witnessing the enactment of tragedies still more dismal, seems to collapse before tragic authors in general, Theodore Dreiser in particular. An American Tragedy (1925) apparently did not dissipate, merely whetted his gloom. In Tragic America he looks for trouble wholesale, finds it just one more monopoly of the capitalistic system. "Actually an oligarchical group of lords in America is today seeking to enslave this great people. And, for that purpose, first seeking to debase it mentally." The implications...