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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ection has held its own so successfully, which the feelings of the spectators circled in nevertheless, that it is even applied to older powerful concentraion. Or in other words: the pieces in the opera as well as in the drama, and play enacted was the expression of the sentiments even classical plays may be seen in this new of the audience by the mouths of the actors. They setting nowadays, which sometimes strikes one appeal to the public as a human being does to a as somewhat strange under the conditions. It is, human being, as an orator tea meeting, or, rather, however, the trend of the times to force this style as a speaker of ancient Greece to his community onto the stage and new surprises are offered us of believers. Modern literature, turning from annually, whilst new ground is being gained psychology toward declamatory styhstics, favored continuously by the innovators in scenecraft. this conception. Illusions vanished, the dividing AUGUST 1922 Jour t wenty-five mceRnACioriAL mm
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A STAGE SETTING BY EMIL PIRCHAN FOR THE STAATS OIFR BERLIN A STAGE SET I ING BY EMIL PIRCHAN FOR THE STAATS Till \ I I HBERLIN /our twenty-six UGUST IQ22 gram© footlights were often ignored and the older stagestructures enlarged In additions thai iutted farbeyond the curtain into the audience. Steps andnarrow bridges led from the stage into theauditorium in various instances, as in Japan, sothat the actors walked off the Stage and onto itagain in full public view, to the amazement of theonlookers. Or a plain platform would be deemedsufficient, with decora-tions that were onljlightly hinted at, re-sembling a lecturersplatform more than ahome of histrionic art.Finally, the at-tempt was made toerect a modern theatreon a large scale accord-ing to these precepts.This resulted in Rem-it a r d t s GrossesSchauspielhaus, con-verted out of an oldcircus during the warby one of our cleverestof theatre architects,Polzig. The seats arebuilt amphitheatre-wise around the hugestage expanse, whichcon

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