Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while they showed vaudeville, but in 1915 they turned to burlesque. Brother Billy, onetime newspaperman, ablest of the group, had at that time never seen a burlesque show. He prefers Wagner, Dostoevsky, "deep books" and Edgar Wallace. Unlike other theatrical entertainment, burlesque requires no rehearsal. It is a traditional art. There are some 400 "bits" and Brother Billy simply specifies what series of bits he wants his stock company to perform each week. Sample "bit" is "Bibs & Bibs," involving two couples, one including a henpecked husband, the other a browbeaten wife. After a few drinks the situation is reversed...
...problems. Led by his environmental interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution of Sex, Biology, Life. His ablest U. S. disciple is Critic Lewis Mumford...
...RECOVERY: THE SECOND EFFORT?Century ($3), called by able Colyumist Walter Lippmann, ?The ablest effort of this kind that I know...
...other parts of town, other galleries honored two of the U. S. drama's ablest decorators: tousle-haired Robert Edmond Jones at the Bourgeois Galleries, swart Jo Mielziner at Marie Sterner...
...excepting Norman Bel-Geddes, a genius whose accent usually obscures the individuality of the playwrights he stages, Robert Edmond ("Bobby") Jones is the ablest designer of the U. S. theatre. Audiences will long recall his skillful settings for The Green Pastures, Mourning Becomes Electro, The Emperor Jones and a hundred other plays, without having been distracted from the quality of the plays themselves. Robert Edmond Jones, at 28, made a sensation with sets and costumes he designed for Granville Barker's pro duction of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. Later he became associated with Arthur Hopkins...