He amplifies the moment-to-moment unpredictability with almost free-associative editing, and by directing his actors to abandon stage directions and reinterpret their lines on the spot.
An anonymous review for the Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad found the film "fascinating", with good acting, though another review for the same paper found that, though the film was better than contemporary works such as Pantjawarna and Sorga Ka Toedjoe, its claim to abandon stage standards was to be taken "with a pinch of salt".
But the advent of sound had led to an immediate demand for stage-trained performers; Colbert abandoned the stage to portray a distressed heroine trying to elude Edward G. Robinson in "A Hole in the Wall" for Paramount.
Bush abandoned the stage in 1979 due to stage fright, so it's fitting that the whole performance begins with an occult incantation of protection – Lily, from The Red Shoes.
Despite his film and television success Mr. McCarthy never abandoned the stage.
She performed in an act with her sisters during her teen years but had abandoned the stage to pursue a secretarial career by the time she met Burns in the early 1920s.
He applauds Marcia Gay Harden for sticking with the theater, even for a pittance, but doesn't seem to notice that many of his most talented writing colleagues have abandoned the stage or, perhaps worse yet, thrown it perfunctory crumbs.
A few short years later, to the bewilderment of the London theater world, Mr. Warner abandoned the stage, after a desultory 1972 West End version of "I, Claudius," playing a character that Mr. Jacobi would eventually make his own on television.
Back in 1904, the Tour's second year, riders who abandoned one stage after falling were permitted to start the next along with everyone else – a rule that was quietly dropped after riders soon cottoned on that they could "crash out" and rejoin the next day without penalty.
