Word: illusionality
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Many men who come to college for the first time come suddenly into a great legacy of responsibility. They are, for the period of their stay at college, their own masters in many respects. Not they are too often victims of the illusion that all one learns at college are...
Harvard men have done away with all the ostensible mass manifestations of Rah, for such commotions have no place in a metropolitan community. A few ardent spirits warm to their illusion once in a while and make a few bows to Rah but they cease even to be funny when...
Street Scene (United Artists). In making a picture out of Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Producer Samuel Goldwyn proceeded simply. He bought the screen rights for $150,000, hired eight actors from the original cast, photographed the play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play...
Six Characters In Search Of An Author, rated by most critics as Luigi Pirandello's best play, was first presented in the U. S. eight years ago. Like all Pirandello plays, it is clouded with metaphysical vaporings. "What is Reality?" the dramatist asks. "What is Illusion?"
It is doubtful if Stravinsky in his austere mood would approve the performances which Stokowski and his orchestra gave last week in collaboration with Manhattan's League of Composers. Stravinsky's intention was to scorn theatric devices, even program notes. He put his text into Latin for the sake of...