Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which has been so widely advertised and extravagantly praised as the Chauve-Souris is likely to prove disappointing, but it is to the credit of these Russian players that every act is as fresh now as it was on their arrival in New York; even the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", which has been played to death by dance orchestras everywhere, seems new and different when accompanying the clockwork manoeuvers of the pipe-clayed actors. Balieff, of course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality...
...Galsworthy's "Loyalties" is one of the best serious dramas to appear on the American stage in years, while the Chauve-Souris players are the best vaudeville company if they can be classified as such in the world. The beetle-browed Baileff and his villainous English, Katinka and her Wooden Soldiers both already familiar to many are but two of the figures which the Chauve Souris has made famous...
Poverty. "The poverty of the peasants is indicated by their dress as well as by their houses. Wooden shoes are worn next to bare feet by a majority of the country population. Almost all the children are barefoot. The clustering little villages are cheaply constructed, the roofs are thatched, the windows are small and sometimes are altogether absent...
Soviet experts, restoring ancient ikons in the Winter Garden of Moscow's Kremlin, found two, three and even four paintings underlying each other on the same wooden panel, concealed beneath centuries of grime and smoke. The lowest layers showed pure Byzantine work of the 11th Century, antedating the Italian primitives and giving evidence of the sources of inspiration for much early Western...
Otherwise the Chauve Souris seems much the same affair that last year tinged all American musical entertainment with its curious strain. Katvnka, A Night at Yards, The Wooden Soldiers still fill the American audiences with the most audible enthusiasm. New numbers also are displayed. Further, little can be said. The Chauve Souris is still the Chauve Souris...