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Excerpt from International Theatre Exhibition: Designs and Models for the Modern Stage, Victoria Albert Museum, June 3-July 16, 1922
Entertainment can grow as dull as anything else, and we thought that here and there the Theatre was showing signs of growing dull. SO we set to work.
The drawings, models, plans, masks, and marionettes shown here are part of the results of our labour.
Out of about 900 pieces exhibited here, at least two-thirds have been carried out in large on the stages in America, Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Russia and Switzerland. In most of these lands the play-writer and the actor have welcomed our ideas for it is ideas which we have brought to the Theatres, not merely sceneries and pictures.
A new way of looking at an old thing - this was our principal idea, and this idea has freshened up that part of entertain ment which was growing dull.
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Entertainment can grow as dull as anything else, and we thought that here and there the Theatre was showing signs of growing dull. SO we set to work.
The drawings, models, plans, masks, and marionettes shown here are part of the results of our labour.
Out of about 900 pieces exhibited here, at least two-thirds have been carried out in large on the stages in America, Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Russia and Switzerland. In most of these lands the play-writer and the actor have welcomed our ideas for it is ideas which we have brought to the Theatres, not merely sceneries and pictures.
A new way of looking at an old thing - this was our principal idea, and this idea has freshened up that part of entertain ment which was growing dull.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Victoria and Albert Museum
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ISBN - 9780265657133
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 56
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ISBN - 9781330743812
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