Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ionizing particles as droplets of fog which can be photographed. Dr. Street rigged his apparatus so that the condensing value would operate not instantly when an ionizing particle passed through, but one second later. This allowed the fog tracks to spread a little, enabling him to get a better count of the droplets...
...ballet together. While dancing and directing ballets at Roxy's Theatre in 1935, he explored upper Manhattan, dived into nightclubs. He found their dancers all too light, too sophisticated. "I want them black, black, all Negro," said von Grona. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel agreed, said "the blacker the better." Von Grona advertised, offering scholarships, and got hundreds of applications. He picked 20 of the blackest applicants and started to rehearse his ballet. The neighbors complained. Hollywood tried to lure him away. But von Grona stuck...
...Stravinsky's 100% Slavic opus. In the Bacchanalian Children of the Earth (music by Negro "Composer Reginald Forsythe) the attempted emulsion of ballet technique and hot-cha failed to mix. St. Louis Women (music by famed W. C. Handy) was straight hot-cha, and might have been done better at the Cotton Club. Encouraged by first-nighters' applause, softspoken, boyish-faced von Grona and his blonde wife Leni decided that their Negro ballet had a great future...
...masters in the U. S. shook their heads over this hasty French abandonment of a 20-year-old tried-and-true technique, doubting whether better skiers could be produced by limiting their repertoire of ski-maneuvers...
...House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House is nevertheless written with power, gives a clearer picture of the wild environment than of the people who fought to make it better or the ones, like Gulla, who tried to make it worse...