Word: realism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...effective and striking scenery, suggestive costuming, and originality of staging, the performance of "Erasmus Montanus" was something of a triumph. The scenery made no pretense at realism; it was frankly imaginative and showed real skill and knowledge of stage values. The costumes were in harmony with the scenery and both admirably suited the character of the play. It is not too much to say that the success of "Erasmus Montanus" was in considerable measure due to the accurate conception of scenery and costumes. Again, it is not over enthusiastic to say that seldom, if ever, has there been such uniformly...
...Bacon, who contributes two sketches, is lively, direct, at times imaginative, but he has not yet developed a sense of form, and he seems to waver between realism and "reelism," unable to decide whether to take himself seriously or to parody his own style...
...Dramatic Club presented its spring group of one-act plays in the Hasty Pudding Theatre last evening. The performance showed the result of some extremely competent coaching by the new director, Mr. S. A. Eliot, in a general evenness of acting and quietness and realism of tone. Exception might possibly be taken to the sombre quality of all four of the plays produced. The curtain rose on a death bed, but the general atmosphere of gloom which dominated the second and third of the plays made the first piece seem almost a merry trifle. It is called "The Harbour...
Saturday, January 6: "Romanticism and Realism...
...Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly as if in a studio, hatless, fan in hand, on a hill-top while behind them the land spreads out in the distance and windy clouds swirl high. He felt indeed very witty. But he quite failed to feel that realism is entirely a matter of the effect produced and has nothing whatever to do with servile imitation of physical act. If you feel that the scarlet Cardinal and the Catholic Church represent Spain's hope and defiance of its great sadness; if you feel that the landscape behind "Uncle Daniel...