The Theatre, 1913, Vol. 17

Download or read book The Theatre, 1913, Vol. 17 written by Arthur Hornblow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Theatre, 1913, Vol. 17: Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Dramatic and Musical Art The curtain rose on Tainted Philanthropy with the Mother of the. Maiden primping herself at the glass and considering the possibilities of her charms if industriously exercised on a man of money The character and the sordidness of the Mother were not unpromising in a dramatic way, to begin with, although the colors were laid on crudely. It was only when a messenger came and delivered a paper, which the Mother read and dropped with an agonized exclamation that the mortgage had to be paid that the humor of the morbid and entirely serious play asserted itself. It was not that Mr. Goldknopf was without ideas. Some of the observations of the characters were philosophic and shrewd, but inevitably morbid. His point of view was so un-american that it could only be laughed at. For instance, he has it said that we have a day on which to celebrate our independence, when in reality we have lost our independence. There is some truth in that if you look at it with your eyes asquint. But what was ah surd in the matter of common sense was that he made the Fourth of July the occasion for the introduction of the confidential clerk of the multimillionaire, a helpless creature who did everything his master bid him to do, contenting himself with the expression, A nasty world. A curious figure he was as a kind of chorus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.