Word: aping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that of Ina Claire, she does her best with the meagre opportunities Through The Night offer her. More impressive vehicles in which she has appeared include: Beyond The Horizon, Back Pay, A Good Bad Woman. Hot Rhythm. Producers of Negro reviews almost always make the mistake of trying to ape the elegance of contemporary Caucasian extravaganzas, as though afraid that just dancing and crooning- at which blackamoors often excel whites- are not sufficient for an evening's entertainment. For this reason, the comedy of Hot Rhythm is often unfunny, the attempt at magnificence unimpressive. Best, most natural humor...
Coates's "Hairy Ape...
...months as director of the Moscow Opera. If he likes it there, he may stay permanently. Then Conductor Coates began talking impetuously of something that was evidently of greatest importance and interest to him. He had seen Playwright Eugene O'Neill, had secured permission to put The Hairy Ape into operatic form. But the permission was only the first small step: "In composing music one cannot work as in a factory. The producing comes only after one has become the thing itself. I will have to live The Hairy Ape for perhaps a year before...
...When I got to the Speaker's table I was boiling with indignation," said he last week to reporters, "I stood by my friend Mr. Brockway to protest against our effete Parliamentary system. The Labor Government will be faced with many more such protests while it continues to ape its so-called betters. Lord Tom Noddy may cut a gracious figure in silk breeches, but the same cannot be said of Jimmy Thomas [the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, M. P., P. C., onetime engine greaser, today Secretary of State for the Dominions...
Excerpts from the excerpts: "You can imagine how intolerable to me are all those people who ape my art, my work, even my ways. ... In 1925 some friends wanted to take me to that monstrous display of bad taste . . . the International Exhibition of Decorative Art. They said to me, 'You'll see . . . that it is you who are responsible for all that architecture. . . .' Imagine Michael Angelo coming to dine with friends and being welcomed with the words, 'We have just ordered a very beautiful Renaissance sideboard inspired by your Moses.' Think of Michael Angelo...