Word: bel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dead End. Sidney Kingsley's slice of East Side Manhattan life exhibited on Norman Bel Geddes' realistic...
Dead End (by Sidney Kingsley; Norman Bel Geddes, producer). In teeming Manhattan no expert statistician is needed to point out that the city's wealth is unequally divided. Crisscrossed everywhere by hairlines of social distinction, with frowsy tenements rubbing their rumps against the flanks of patrician apartment houses, the island's very real estate proclaims the class war. Dramatic implications of this scene must have occurred to many a playwright before they were seized upon by Sidney Kingsley, who, though he won a Pulitzer Prize two years ago with his Men in White, is a comparative newcomer...
...scenery for Lysistrata and King Lear amply testify, Norman Bel Geddes is no stranger in the realm of artistic imagination. In Dead End, "an experiment in technique, a step toward increased realism in writing and production." Designer Geddes has given the U. S. Theatre new dimensions in the realm of naturalism. Displayed on the stage where David Belasco used to draw plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats...
...other Naval Academy cadets exhibit fellowship, loyalty, and navy spirit at all times. the effect of the picture is in general to reassure timid souls that the U. S. navy watches over them night and day and that the world is still safe for love and sentiment. Nevertheless, Ms. Bel Scott's brief appearance on the stage is ample compensation even for "Shipmates Forever...
...asking questions in turn. Because a smudge of dust is as visible on her hair as a thumbprint on white paper, she visits her hairdresser once a day for a shampoo. She dresses quickly, uses few cosmetics because they irritate her skin. In the large Bello house at Bel Air many of the rooms are white, as are Jean Harlow's bathing suits and most of the fantastic clothes designed for her by MGM's Costumer Adrian, who is well aware of the fact that fine feathers make fine fans at the box office. When not working, Jean...