Sheldon Cheney's Theatre Arts Magazine Book

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Sheldon Cheney

A Missionary of Modernism 11

"Foreword to Volume I" Sheldon Cheney 21

"Editorial" Sheldon Cheney 22

"Editorial" Sheldon Cheney 23

"What We Stand For" Sheldon Cheney 24

"On Stylization" Sheldon Cheney 25

"Those Germans!" Sheldon Cheney 26

"Provincialism" Sheldon Cheney 26

"Why We Are Moving" Sheldon Cheney 27

"Foreword to Volume II" Sheldon Cheney 28

"Our Ideals and Our Critics" Sheldon Cheney 29

Chapter 2 Conditions in American Theatre

Righteous Indignation 33

"New York's Best Season" Sheldon Cheney 49

"About the Portmanteau Theatre" Sheldon Cheney 51

"Fooling with Repertory" Sheldon Cheney 54

"The Art Theatre and Repertory" Sheldon Cheney 55

"At Last-A National Theatre" Sheldon Cheney 55

"The Road-Town Problem" Sheldon Cheney 57

"Closing of the Chicago Little Theatre" Sheldon Cheney 59

"Comment on Current Plays" Sheldon Cheney 59

"Repertory Again" Sheldon Cheney 63

"The Washington Square Players" Sheldon Cheney 64

"A Futile War" Sheldon Cheney 65

"The New York Season" Sheldon Cheney 66

"The Theatre and War Memorials" John F. O'Ryan 68

"Curtain!" Kenneth Macgowan 71

"Letter" Thomas H. Dickinson 73

"Lonely Places" Maurice Brown 76

Chapter 3 International Influences

Good News from Abroad 91

"New Books: The Mirror of Gesture" Sheldon Cheney 103

"Jacques Copeau" Sheldon Cheney 103

"The Moscow Art Theatre: A Model" N. Ostrovsky 104

"Wartime Theatres of England and France: Paris and the Mask of Picasso" Huntly Carter 107

"New Books: Noh; or Accomplishment" Sheldon Cheney 110

"Newest Tendencies in the Paris Theatre" Huntly Carter 110

"TheThéâtre du Vieux Colombier in America" Sheldon Cheney 113

"Sketches of Oriental Theatres, I" Hermann Rosse 115

"Gordon Craig" Sheldon Cheney 116

"Sketches of Oriental Theatres, II" Hermann Rosse 117

"Eurhythmies for the Theatre" Elizabeth S. Allen 120

"Theory and Practice in Russian Theatres" Oliver Sayler 128

"Copeau-1921," Ralph Roeder 133

Chapter 4 New Stagecraft

The Scenic Reformation 145

"Acting and the New Stagecraft" Walter Prichard Eaton 160

"Exhibitions of Stage Art" Sheldon Cheney 163

"Sam Hume's Adaptable Settings" Sheldon Cheney 163

"The Painter and the Stage" Lee Simonson 168

"A Note About Lee Simonson" Hiram Kelly Moderwell 173

"The Newest Art" Rollo Peters 176

Bourgeois Galleries Exhibition of American Stage Design:"Prefatory Note" Sheldon Cheney 181

"The New Path of the Theatre" Kenneth Macgowan 182

"The Necessary Illusion" Lee Simonson 188

"The Mission of the Stage Setting" John Wenger 189

"Artificiality and Reality in the Future Theatre"by Hermann Rosse 191

"If I Must" by Rollo Peters 193

"Fashions in the Theatre" Robert Edmond Jones 194

"The Future of Stage Art" Michael Carmichael Carr 195

"Scene and Action" Irving Pichel 197

"The New Stage Designing" C. Raymond Johnson 198

"The Theatre of the Future" Norman Bel Geddes 200

"The Stage" Joseph Urban 202

"Fantasy?" J. Blanding Sloan 202

"Color and Light" Maxwell Armfield 203

"Hermann Rosse's Stage Designs" Sheldon Cheney 206

"The Centre of the Stage; Macbeth" Kenneth Macgowan 208

Chapter 5 American Plays and Playwrights

Seeking New Prophets 219

From "The New Published Plays" and "Theatre Arts Bookshelf" Columns, 1916-1921 227

"Realistic Drama and the Experimental Theatre" Walter Prichard Eaton 235

"American Drama Mid-Channel" Kenneth Macgowan 238

"Eugene O' Neill" Walter Prichard Eaton 242

"The New Season" Kenneth Macgowan 246

Appendix 257

Bibliography 269

Index 275

About the Author 281