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Plays, A Form Of Story Telling THE play is a form of story telling, among several such forms: the short story, or tale; the novel; and in verse, the epic and that abbreviated version of it called the ballad. All of them, each in its own fashion, is trying to do pretty much the same thing, to tell a story. |
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Plays, A Cultural Opportunity The play, this democratic mode of story telling, attracting vast numbers of hearers and universally popular because man is ever avid of amusement and turns hungrily to such a medium as the theater to satisfy a deeply implanted instinct for pleasure, can be made an experience to the auditor properly to be included in what he would call his cultural opportunity. |
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Plays Up To Shakespeare THE recent vogue of plays like The Servant in the House, The Passing of the Third Floor Back, The Dawn of Tomorrow, and Everywoman sends the mind back to the early history of English drama and is full of instruction. |
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Plays - Growth To The Nineteenth Century PREPAREDNESS in the appreciation of a modern play presupposes a knowledge of the origin and early development of English drama, as briefly sketched in the preceding pages. |
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Plays - The Modern School WE have noted that Ibsen's plays began to get a hearing in England in the eighteen nineties. In fact, it was in 1889 that Mr. J. T. Grein had the temerity to produce at his Independent Theater in London A Doll's House, and followed it shortly afterward by the more drastic Ghosts. |
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The Play As Theme And Personal View WE may now come directly to a consideration of the play regarded as a work of art and a piece of life. After all, this is the central aim in the attempt to become intelligent in our play-going. |
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Plays - Method And Structure At the beginning let it be understood that the dramatist must see his subject dramatically. Every stage story should be seen or conceived in a central moment which is the explanation of the whole play, its reason for being. |
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Plays - Method And Structure - Part 2 With the opening act, then, so handled as to avoid these pitfalls, the dramatist is ready to go on with his task. |
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Plays - Development THE story being properly started, it becomes the dramatist's business, as we saw, so to advance it that it will develop naturally and with such increase of interest as to tighten the hold upon the audience as the plot reaches its crucial point, the obligatory scene. |
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Plays - Climax WITH the play properly introduced in act one, and the development carried forward upon that firm foundation in the following act or acts, the playwright approaches that part of his play which will, more than any-thing else, settle the fate of his work. |
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Ending A Play TO one who is watchful in his theater seat, it must have become evident that many plays, which in the main give pleasure and seem successful, have something wrong with the last act. |
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Social Significance Of The Play WE have now surveyed the chief elements involved in the making of a play and suggested an intelligent attitude on the part of the play-goer toward them. Primarily the aim has been to broaden and sharpen the appreciation of a delightful experience. |
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Amateur Plays - Choosing The Play THE first important question arising after the decision to give a play, is - What play? Only too often is this question answered in a haphazard way. |
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Amateur Plays - Organization A GREAT many more factors go into the making of a successful dramatic production than may at first be apparent. |
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Amateur Plays - Choosing The Cast OBVIOUSLY, the choice of the cast should depend upon the ability of the actors, although in the case of an organization like a school or college dramatic club, this system is not always practicable or even advisable. |
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Amateur Plays - Rehearsing THE first rehearsal should be called as soon as possible after the cast has been selected and a place chosen in which to work. If the play is to be performed in a regular theater, it is wise to block out the general action and have at least the first two or three rehearsals on the stage. |
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Amateur Plays - Rehearsing II THE dress rehearsal usually takes place on the night before the regular performance. |
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Amateur Plays - The Stage A GREAT deal more attention is being directed — in this country, at least - to the improvement of the physical requirements of the stage than heretofore. |
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Amateur Plays - Lighting IT has been rightly urged that recent inventions and discoveries in lighting constitute the greatest contribution to the modern art of the theater. |
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Amateur Plays - Scenery And Costumes The purpose of this chapter is (1) to suggest simple but effective means of staging without using the conventional sets, and (2) to lay down a few principles as to costuming. |
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Amateur Plays - Selective List Of Amateur Plays This list makes no pretence to completeness. It has been the writer's purpose merely to mention a number of classic and standard plays which amateurs can produce without too great difficulty. |
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Amateur Plays - Copyright And Royalty The copyright law of the United States requires that every play, whether published or unpublished, for which copyright protection is claimed, must be registered in the copyright office at Washington, D.C. Until such registration, no action for infringement of copyright can be maintained. |
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Amateur Plays - A Note On Makeup The whole art of making-up is still hide-bound by tradition, because of stupid ideals which persist in the minds of those whose business it is to direct, as well as many in the acting profession itself. |
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Captain John Smith These three little ships were the Susan Constant, the Good Speed and the Discovery; and upon them came Captain John Smith, the renowned adventurer, who, with Newport, founded the first permanent settlement in North America, the colony of Jamestown. |
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Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Bay is the largest inland sea on the Atlantic Coast of the United States. It stretches for two hundred miles up into the land, between the low and fertile shores of Virginia and Maryland, both of which States it divides, and thus gives them valuable navigation facilities. |
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The City Of Washington The most famous of all these cities of the Chesapeake region is Washington, upon the Potomac, and we will therefore begin this story at the American National Capital. |
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Washington - The Capitol The crowning glory of Washington is the Capitol, its towering dome, surmounted by the colossal statue of America, being the prominent landmark, seen from afar, on every approach to the city. |
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Washington - The White House The most famous building in Washington, though one of the least pretentious, is the Executive Mansion, popularly known as the White House, being constructed, like the older part of the Capitol, of freestone, and painted white. |
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Washington - Elaborate Public Buildings The great public buildings used for Government purposes are among the chief adornments of Washington. |
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Washington - The Smithsonian Institution Upon the Mall stands the Smithsonian Institution, of world-wide renown, one of the most interesting public structures in Washington, its turrets and towers rising above the trees. |
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Washington - The Soldiers' Home And Washington Monument The city of Washington, with progressing years, is becoming more and more the popular residential city of the country. |
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Washington - The Potomac And The Alleghenies The Potomac is one of the chief among the many rivers draining the Allegheny Mountains. It originates in two branches, rising in West Virginia and uniting northwest of Cumberland. |
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Harper's Ferry And John Brown The Potomac, having flowed more than two hundred miles through beautiful gorges and the finest scenery of these mountains, finally breaks out at Harper's Ferry, receiving here its chief tributary, the Shenandoah. |
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