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...talent into current American prose. Instead of Tanagra figurines or Spanish silhouets, the characters were animated U. S. cartoons, drawn with so subtle a line that they seemed more lifelike than comic. As usual in a Wilder story, the philosophic implications were hardly noticeable in the smooth façade of the story...
...ade of Central City's Opera House and its 750 hickory seats were redolent of the past, there was nothing antique last week about what happened on the stage. Walter Huston made Othello a modern hero, lively, admirable and forlorn. Nan Sunderland's Desdemona was a graceful and impulsive lady, much more exciting than the demure Desdemonas who were in vogue when Central City last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly...
...cannot help it." He thinks the torso the most expressive and important part of the human body, often exaggerates it at the expense of a statue's head. One of his biggest carvings is a stylized group of women and children symbolizing Civilization on the west façade of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center...
...opposed to Europe's, is rootless. "Old American things are old as nothing else anywhere in the world is old, old without majesty, old without mellowness, old without pathos, just shabby and bloodless and worn out. . . . Something infinitely old and disillusioned peers out between the rays of George Ade's wit, and Mrs. Wharton's intellectuality positively freezes the fingers with which one turns her page. . . . Think of the arctic frigidity of Mr. Paul Elmer More's criticism...
...Townsend Scott in a private suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in 1905. His first wife, Julia Graves of Aurora, Ill. had died three years before. His bride was 28, California-born, the divorced wife of a picture dealer. They went to the Victorian house with the gingerbread façade shortly after the panic of 1907. There for nearly two decades while he ruled the destiny of Steel, she entertained the kings of industry, the royalty of Europe...