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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offered creative opportunity to such men as Robert Edmond Jones, Donald Oenslager, and Robert Sherwood, but many significant new plays have been given their American premieres here under the Club's auspices. A brief list of some of the more important would include Auden and Isherwood's "The Dog Beneath the Skin," Saki's "The Watched Pot," Johnston's "A Bride for the Unicorn," Coctean's "La Machine Infernale," and Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." The Club's production of "The Ascent of FL," early in the decade, is still a topic of conversation in the theater world...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

...attended wearing his best hand-painted necktie and cowboy boots; after laying aside his cigar and taking off his coat, he spent an hour waving his hamlike hands beneath the noses of railroad lawyers, buttering up the commissioners and discussing the greatness of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: No Mourning for Electro | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Long Beach (Calif.) airline ticket agency. "Tours" was mostly a mail drop and slight, soft-spoken Charlie Otterman, 37. For a mere $385 the tourists would be lapped in luxury aboard a slim, rakish yacht, served the "finest of foods . . . five times daily," and by night would dance beneath the golden Pacific moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Enchanted Voyage | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Paris. Its many huge temples make Kyoto, like Rome, a city of bells. As Japan's holy city, and a second-rate target to boot, Kyoto escaped bombing. Last week, amid spring's pink and white cherry blossoms, Kyoto seemed full of changeless charm. But beneath the surface stirred the changes of postwar U.S. occupation and tutelage. Surveying the scene, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles found the ferment "still far from democracy, but fascinating and startling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Report Card from Kyoto | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pericles to Picasso | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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