Evening star., 1945-01-28
The Changing Theater
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By Bill Hill
TN the temporary Absence of
woman for whose judgment great admiration
remarked the other day that heae plays
seem worth going The explained
acting seems to have fallen from heyday
OF the Barymores o E. H. Marlowe
From her point of may mine
change and like everything the heater
us left with good days with
fes keen pleasure don't think singer
got when stage while
feet John Mccormack Undoubtedly
have heard bad singers
actors the sothern and thing
remember them In the world of the arts perhaps unlike that
life the bad forgotten lacks the vitality
Audiences Today
Since the good old the theater changed
vghts have changed and perhaps what has changed most
all is the audience going theaer
something special particularly person.
and the rarity of helped mental where wanted to
be impressed Not old hat" by the time
child in his audience and they enter
hater from wanting expecting impressed with the idea
of resisting the spell of the theater
audience playwighs
them differently
orato actor They
artificial increasing epicm of the audience
Instead began of the
type of the audience might be living in order to
the materials appeal to that audience Realism came into
Art copied life UNTIL at the present time play often Is almost
topical as a newspaper
Actors Change Style Fit Modern Plays.
With the play type of actor The woman
don't at their profession the way the did
but what and how they study different
other kinds of study Take elementary
asked nghbo the other day what his child was STUDYING
child studying ito express himself That
wasn't what studied
No. think doing itself, audiences
pointed article this last Sunday
both and good acting at the present
time Apropos of the present discussion was pleased TO note tna
performance in Harvey being compared to the sn
acting of the good old days"
Perhaps Washington isn't the vantage point for broad
that plays
themselves enough Even
cned think acting often is to play
writing technique has crafty that poduc
successful when lack what essential
situation masters of dialogue
of kind of twist to make successful venture of
fection that is inherently trivial
Two Ways a Play Might Come to Be-
Perhaps the key inception the play The plays
don't like those which leave feeling
began with sitting other
returning from the war and instead of having it be soldier have
be WAC"
companion says you've got something Let's see
could have her coming back the loved
abroad and"
"only abroad some one
Some else? Why a o guys?"
That's enough to suggest the idea. point
conceived likely than
of those who dreamed
surprising situation arrived the time the play
the play remains empty thing The this The authors
coming from They
WAC who went to All they've got idea and lot of
technique.
the other idea might make fine play It
would have be written however knowledge
OF what experience in
Kidding knowledge and the feeling
that gives him. The WAC however light dialogue
intriguing the situation would have
for the moments party her life
the down the street If she play down
the play character construction of sawdust
the street would probably be much entertaining