Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mainly responsible. Their enthusiasm, their esprit de corps, their sense of comedy, all made the audience forget they didn't know Greek and have a grand time anyway watching some of the best horse-play this side of Broadway, a Sophic Tucker version of a Greek poem, an angel on roller-skates, a Heracles in striped pyjamas, and above all, Harvard as the Cloudcuckootown! Backing up the cast was an original musical score and masks, costumes, backdrops, done with skill and rare humor. Congratulations should also go to a gentleman named Aristophanes who constructed such an up-to-date plot...
...this point a bearded philosophical angel in a cutaway explains to the audience that the action would look just as logical in reverse. So the music begins to play backwards, the man uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...
...frequently made corrections in the Odyssey at his suggestion. (Rogers suggested the Odyssey translation to Lawrence.) Fond of bright clothing, Italian cooking, puns and typographical horseplay, Bruce Rogers particularly likes lying abed mornings. On his tombstone, chuckles "B. R.," he would like to have chiseled these instructions for the Angel Gabriel: "Call me last...
Greenaway* vignette, Eugeène Berman's wild, sad, subtle Tobias and the Angel (1938)† and the likewise tattered Peasants in Front of a House by Louis Le Nain...
...Testament (Apocrypha) relates that the Angel Raphael led the younger Tobias on a journey to collect a debt owed to blind Tobias the elder. Guided by the Angel, little Tobias returned with, among other things, a fish (see cut) whose gall restored his father's vision...