Word: stanislavsky
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place of Stanislavski's love of local color, the heavy Russian atmosphere so thick you can cut it with a knife, Evreinov tries to give us an international, a universal theatre that will appeal alike to all manners and races of men. In place of the realistic this Nicolai Nicolaevich would give us, the theatre frankly theatrical...
...King Tut would be emblazoned on our banners of amusement. But the Russians were on the scene, well up in their lines, on the scene and shrewdly shepherded, and consequently the Egyptian did fairly well in dress fabrics, but was unable to snatch the torch of drama from Stanislavski. Yet there is not that maudlin excitement over the pilgrims from Petrograd which prevailed a year ago. If you casually remark to your laundrywoman that Stanislavski and Balieff will be back on Broadway her enthusiasm will scarcely unhinge her to the point of crowning herself with a flatiron. The Russian...