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Drama
March 28, 1918 issue

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This article highlights author Sheldon Cheney's ideals of experimental theaters. It is refreshing to find a zealous admirer and advocate of the experimental theaters candid enough to admit that the whole realistic movement, dating from the later eighties, in Paris, London, and Berlin, has been vastly overrated in the current estimation of its positive contribution to dramatic art, and that it "missed something of the spiritual, imaginative, and eternal." Cheney might have added, with equal truth, that it failed utterly to provoke that great popular response without which the theatre, as a public institution, artistic or not, must be comparatively valueless, if not absolutely pernicious.

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EXPERIMENTAL theater; CHENEY, Sheldon; PUBLIC institutions; THEATER; PERFORMING arts; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.
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