Drama: A Quarterly Review of Dramatic Literature, Volume 6, Issues 23-24Drama League of America, 1916 - Drama |
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acting actor actress Alan Dale Aldonza ALGISTA appear April ARCHANGEL artist audience beautiful become Bertha BLACKSMITH-CRIPPLE CAIAPHAS Carl Hauptmann character CHORUS comedy comes CRIPPLE CRIPPLE-PHILOSOPHER DAGOBERT dance dark daughter dead dear death Ditto door drama DULCINEA earth ENOCH Equity Association Ernest Fenollosa ETHELBERT EUROPEAN MASTER-ACCOUNTANT eyes father girl goes GRUSHKA hand Hihihihi human Hurrah Japan Japanese John Cournos JUDAS Khlodoveg King LADY laugh light little theatre living look lord manager marionette Maurice Browne modern mother movement Narihira night once P. G. Wodehouse pagan palace performance perhaps PETER HEISSLER PILATE play players poet POETRY PORTER PRIEST PRINCE KAIL PRINCESS KAIL queen realistic Ruhleben scene SCHALAST sedan seems SENTRY servants Shakespeare Shimpa silence sing soldiers soliloquy Sologub song sorrow spirit stage star theatrical thing tion tragedy village voice William Marion Reedy WOMAN SUTLER women words young
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Page 522 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 478 - Managers none. 2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock.) The National Historical Society.
Page 520 - Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Page 478 - DRAMA, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act...
Page 517 - And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth ; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 522 - As soon as Thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Page 480 - ... to recede from us into some more powerful life. Because that separation was achieved by human means alone, he receded but to inhabit as it were the deeps of the mind. One realised anew, at every separating strangeness, that the measure of all arts' greatness can be but in their intimacy.
Page 483 - Dido on the wild sea banks' but in rhythm, in vocabulary; for the ear must notice slight variations upon old cadences and customary words, all that high breeding of poetical style where there is nothing ostentatious, nothing crude, no breath of parvenu or journalist.
Page 520 - Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, the King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
Page 483 - Realism is created for the common people and was always their peculiar delight, and it is the delight to-day of all those whose minds, educated alone by schoolmasters and newspapers, are without the memory of beauty and emotional subtlety.