Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Locandiera. Goldoni's "classical" 18th century Italian comedy is sandwiched in between the more substantial fare of tragic offerings ordinarily provided at the Civic Repertory Theatre.* La Locandiera, the Mistress of the Inn (Eva Le Gallienne) breaks through the crust of a woman-hater, the cavalier Ripafratta, finds him quite soft inside, then jilts him and marries her headwaiter. An old play, it is presented with all its venerable tokens of age (soliloquies, asides, good and evil characters) yet not subjected to the snickers of sophisticated production...
Marriage is not an ideal, no formula for "happiness." It constitutes a specific state with a significance and laws of its own. It is essentially tragic, in that it is incapable of solution. It is inevitably destructive to some degree of the individualities of man and wife, but Since it depends upon their retaining their individuality and brings into play their supra-personal (unselfish) capacities, it is creative of a higher order of individuals...
...year (intermission) she seduces the manservant, the son and the master of the house. And she does these things in the big parlor hall that gives on every room in the house. The ladies wax wroth. Blanche Yurka as the mistress of the household, becomes, at times, a tragic figure, notably at the end of Act II when she prays to the Virgin for strength to keep her Spanish down. A happy ending and retribution follow the return of the gipsy man with the whip for his "woman." Effective staging surrounds this cloud-lace fabric with an air of reality...
...nothing- the petty military, the country landlord. Always the victims struggle to writhe free of the suffocating blankets of their own inertia-in this case, three sisters. They will go to Moscow, where there is life. They will go. But they never do. They just relapse into the tragic, supine, half-dead repose fastened upon them by their traditional weakness. Meanwhile peasant bipod, reddened by centuries of labor, filters in with the drops of dying blue, picks up the burdens-and the authority-that the grand folk slough off. Soon the peasants will be the grand folk...
...Tragic Eighteen. Under brown, rugged ceiling beams, from a row of quaint stalls that-substitute for balcony and gallery in the Charles Hopkins Theatre, the audience follows, sympathetically but a trifle wearily, the fortunes of an Iowa innocent (Neil Martin) on Columbia University's Broadway campus. Even before classes have fairly begun, he is in love with a chorus girl. Mother and brother are powerless to interfere. Not till the unfortunate chorus girl confides that she is possessed of a hidden liability five months old does poor Teddy go back to his books, a sadder and a wiser...