Word: barns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that when she left the train she had said: "I don't want to ride in your old yellow cabs. I can't play the piano tonight. I want my symphony orchestra." When she went to the hall to practice: "I don't like this old barn. I won't play the piano in this old building." Next day a note was discovered addressed to Manager S. E. MacMillen: "Dear Sam, I think I am going crazy. I cannot play tonight. I am so sorry...
Anyone who feels the extravagant ugliness of contemporary returns to the jungle in modes of dancing must welcome an honest attempt to recover the genuine line of advance by reverting to forms far less aboriginal and admittedly graceful. It is not the barn dances that are wanted at present, but the waltz, polka, quadrille, gavotte, varsovien, etc. And these are not proposed as substitutes for all present modes, but as forms to be interspersed with them. In a well-devised musical program, the architectural music of Bach or Mozart is likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski...
...faults. A man of less keen perception than Henry Ford, realizes its shortcomings. But no one, except Mr. Ford, is quite so absurd as to suggest a return to the awkward clownish movements of a few years back. The company that performs with Mr. Dunham demonstrates conclusively that barn dances, at least, must never supplant the fox-trot and the new waltz. There have been periods of graceful polished dancing when rhythm and ease and picturesqueness gave color and beauty to the ballroom. But evidently Mr. Ford has never heard of them...
...something more difficult and more graceful. The old folks appeared as if they had never learned to dance at all, and therein lay the pathos of the whole exhibition. It was their patient, uncertain attempts to attain any sort of grace in their movements which showed conclusively that the barn dance is perhaps the foundation of our modern waltzes, but not their antidote. If such awkward jigglings be dancing, then make the most of them...
...three night wanderers to a child born on a Christmas Eve, are the cup, the pipe, and the kiss of "The Three Wise Men", by Jean Dumaux. Perhaps the strangest of all tellings of the old story, very gently, very gravely, very beautifully! Tramps in the night, a lonely barn, a refuge, a man and "the skirt", and a new born babe! Of these the story that every one knows is told, the story that every one knows by heart and in his heart...