Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BURLESQUE?In which vivid stage door slang spreads smiles across the face of a play with broken hearts below the surface...
...play safe. Mr. Stout, in "The Keepers of the Light", contributes an exceptionally good story: swift, idiomatic, colorful, with a good deal of sense of character. His style is perhaps too nervous and choppy--the sentences too persistently short and periodic, but it is a sound story, and a vivid one. And Mr. Barnett gives us some extremely readable, and sometimes witty, theatre-notes. Both of these contributors write as if they did it with pleasure, and as if they weren't afraid of being "literary". Of the other contributors, not quite so much can be said. They play safe...
Famed European players, Alexander Moissi, Lili Darvas, etc., seemed good in their parts, but never comparable to the sum of the whole. The wriggling darting Puck of Wladimir Sokolov was a vivid individual contribution. Rosamond Pinchot, discovered as an actress by Max Reinhardt for The Miracle, is the single native per former with a speaking part. She, like the rest, talks German...
...recalls that after the Franco-Prussian War the statue of Alsace in the Place de la Concorde was veiled in black, but France had been the loser, while Belgium in 1918 was one of the conquering nations. Belgium's memory is perhaps so vivid she, like the British general in the Revolutionary War, would cease to exist after another such victory. It is nevertheless a novelty in ante-bellum relations to find the conquered nation attempting to bury the hatchet, while the conqueror earnestly digs it up again. And even if a complete acknowledgement be made of the justification...
...Spain recognizes in her greatest best seller, Vincente Blasco Ibañez, a natural genius of vivid, soaring imagination, of exceptional descriptive talent, albeit unreliable in history, while his loose, inaccurate style has prevented him, in spite of all good will (I write advisedly), from admission to the Spanish Academy of Letters...