Word: clownish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...moment. The danger, from the actor's point of view, lay in over acting. Those who remember plays of this sort in Germany, recall the heavy buffoonery and ridiculous capers of the characters; the plays were reduced to the merest and broadest farce, with the comedy values obscured by clownish antics. There was none of this as the Dramatic Club gave it. Comedy values were emphasized for all they were worth, but never allowed to degenerate...