Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to Philadelphia to hear an opera. As he entered the old Academy of Music, he said grimly: "I will sit through it to the end, no matter that I do not like it." The opera was Pelléas et Meélisande, music by Achille-Claude Debussy, drama by Maurice Maeterlinck. Although Pelléas was first performed nearly 40 years ago, its author had never sat through a production...
...With that the play dissolves into a psychoanalytical circus with four revolving rings. The scene shifts from the psychoanalyst's office to the Allure office, to the young lady's dreams, and back again. Playwright Hart puts anything on the stage that he wishes?a love affair, sophisticated neuro-drama. fashion parades, farce, musical dream fantasias. And the lovely editress learns that she really wants to be less editorial and more seductive, to love not the married man but a cocky young charmer...
...nevertheless takes much more than heightened scenic effect to give a play dramatic power. During most of two acts of Flight to the West it is a series of recitations rather than drama. The sentiments are those ubiquitous in anti-Nazi journalism...
Through it all, Ginger, guided by seasoned, sentimental Director Sam Wood gives the prime performance of her new departure into drama. Waltzing to Paradise or making love with handsome kinky-haired Dennis Morgan, she throws in a whopping supply of spirited romance. As a brokenhearted wife or the mother of a dead child, she plunges her scenes into deep tragedy. Kitty Foyle should fix an even more permanent place for Ginger in the hearts of her feminine fans...
...Jones and his two frightening assistants were looking for some swag can curl the hair of the most composed reader. Axel Heyst, mustachioed philosopher who lives in seclusion on the island with his Chinese servant, has heroic proportions. The howling storm which engulfs the last stages of the drama is great theatre. Alma, the helpless, buffeted pianist who escapes with Heyst to the peace of Samburan from oppression in an itinerant girls' band, is a charming romantic touch...