Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wore a scarlet satin vest and green silk trousers. Others wore "red vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round One for the new Romantic Movement...
...Chambers, "one of the first to go, one of the first to die that we may keep this earth for free men." It is the thought of some other or possible Sergeant Chambers in every spectator's mind that accentuates the poignancy of Maxwell Anderson's drama. Its moment in history transfigures it, restoring to subjects like young love, maternal pride, the sense of home, the heroism of war some of the luster that oceans of hokum have washed away. All the same Playwright Anderson has frequently brought to his story something as warm with life...
...tiny theatre between Scollay Square and Charles Street Station overcomes its early-season tenseness and returns to the higher standards of previous seasons, it should easily fill the converted stable which it grandly calls an "auditorium." The Playhouse isn't great drama, but the plays are consistently chosen from tested works. Both the triteness and the crowding of wartime movies can be avoided by dropping into Boston's only permanent amateur theatre...
...encore. And the colorful "Bluebeard" which made a one hour sprint to the finish of the show couldn't efface the effect on the Schoenberg masterpiece. Startlingly crotic despite the Victorian costumes, and moving languidly to a climax, "Pillar of Fire" had the comprehensibility and emotional impact of a drama as well as the grace of ballet technique. But the entire program was masterful with the balance of contrasting classical, modern-dramatic, and comic techniques...
...Guinzburg, owner of Viking Press) are the eyes, ears and distributing agents for the Overseas Branch. Most of them are just getting into operation. The branch chiefs are mostly ex-foreign correspondents like Wallace Carroll (London), former head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...