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...mime" (she pronounces it "meem") had a show of gouaches and drawings in Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries, gave her first Manhattan's theatre performances of the season and published her first book.* Pretty well shot by this triple demonstration was a ten-year-old, popular suspicion that Angna Enters is merely highbrow...
...have never had proved to my satisfaction." says Angna Enters, "that working in tragedy and 'high comedy' requires anything greater than performing on the variety stage. . . . At least, these ordinary vaudeville performers do not get across by special pleading that they are 'pure spirits.' " One thing Mime Enters found in performers like Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. Jimmy Savo, Moran & Mack and the Fratellinis was timing raised to a high art. She raised it, in some instances, higher. Her use of castanets in a dance-pantomime called Boy Cardinal, composed in 1932, was something Bojangles or even...
...characters were as varied as Angna Enters' or Ruth Draper's. In a severe black cloak she was a tortured Yemenite youth wailing to God to take away his sadness. Just as surely, she was a voluptuous young Spanish girl wandering wistfully in her garden at dusk, an Arabian merchant comically scorning the Jews, a Felahi shepherdess who lost her pet lamb and joyfully found it again. Deeply stirring was her impersonation of a Persian woman possessed by grief and awe as she swayed over her father's tomb. Never did she make her audience feel...
...left his class, disillusioned. Because she thought her paintings lacked form she studied movement and dancing. With $25 she hired the Belmont Theatre one Sunday evening in 1926. She made some costumes and got a friend to play a tinkling piano behind curtains. Monday morning Manhattan began hearing about Angna Enters, Mime...
...ensuing eight years it heard a great deal, but Angna Enters, Painter, remained a nonentity until 1932. that year Mrs. Edith Parsons Morgan saw some of her costume designs. Mrs. Morgan fired Art Dealer Walter Louis Ehrich with her enthusiasm for this young artist. Angna Enters finished 65 drawings in five weeks in dressing rooms, on trains, in hotel bathrooms, and gave her first exhibition. Then came the Guggenheim Fellowship...