Word: unreality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...distant land of Czecho-Ptomania where a lazy king and a fiery Bolshevik each take their turn in making the people's existence wretched. It is entirely a travesty on Bolshevism, portraying the socialist rule in its humorous aspects. In the cast are included a real dog and an unreal horse, each of which plays its part in ridiculing the Bolsheviks...
...honors to his feminine collaborator. So he brings the play up to date, adds some rather hollow gabble about munitions, German spies, bleeding Belgium; and by so doing, strange to say, piles impossibility upon impossibility. If you want to see how Mr. Booth's war-policy is actually more unreal than Mrs. Thurston's improbable novel built around an impossible resemblance, go to the Plymouth and find out. It is a very fair evening's entertainment...
...silly channel steamer with it unreal label of noise, the London house with its utterly unEnglish inhabitants are not made real because in a very reasense they are merely the stage upon which Mr. Powers reels in his drunkenness. We do not complain that this is so. The American farce is an genre as another and we enjoy Mr. Powers...
...Soldier Boy" is really a series of sentimental pictures of a most unattractive pre-Raphaelite type, joined together by several strokes of the leader of the orchestra's baton; and a few real bits of music. We are so used to recognizing the unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle...
...make us forgive the hoax. "Chapters from a Summer Romance" is conventional in detail and feeble in situation: in the descriptive parts "scarcely a sound broke the quiet," although a hermit thrush "could be heard in the distance; in the narrative part we have, in addition to some very unreal dialogue, the old, old ending! "Thereupon he turned upon his heel and strode off into the night." Heroes ought to behave with more originality that that...