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American Drama 1916 Part 2

admin — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:22:15 +0000

WHAT was needed to remake the theater was not better managers, better actors, better playwrights, butâ€”fore and aftâ€” that same sixth sense, a “national consciousness” that would enable us to distinguish the better ones when we saw them. We needed to think “theater” in America, not solely as a place for entertain... continued here

American Drama 1916 Part 1

admin — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:34:09 +0000

A SPECIAL YEAR OF AMERICAN DRAMA: BY EDITH J. R. ISAACS (Chairman American Drama Committee, Drama League of America) IN China, any man who writes an unmoral play is threatened by the social religious code with a purgatory lasting as long as his play continues to be produced. This is exactly as it should be. It is a delightfully simple and obvious m... continued here

Coles Phillips – Illustrator

admin — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:08:10 +0000

The originator of the Fadeaway Girl is not of the long-haired, flowing bow-tie variety of artists, but prides himself on his practicality and enjoys having his friends call him “sane and business-like,” which he is. He lives in New Rochelle, the New York suburb which now has another claim to fame than the fact that it is “Forty-Fi... continued here

Renee Prahar, Sculptor – 1922 Article

admin — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:23:12 +0000

A PioneerÂ in the fantastic and the grotesque, is what Henry McBride, the art critic, calls Renee Prahar, the sculptor. And a New York gallery is showing so much of her work as to support the attribution. “Nothing could seem stranger in descriptionâ€”to prove so beautiful when seenâ€”than the ‘monkey room,’ one of thre... continued here