Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tense silence, which made people's ears ring, and a sense of oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...
Along the mighty Alps great, dense, blue-black clouds discharged their heavy burdens of warm rain for many hours. Snow and ice became water as the endless rain from the sky beat down on the glaciers and a hundred snow-capped summits. Little pools formed and overflowed into rivulets and tore down the sides of the ravines into the streams that gurgled and splashed in their headlong course to the mightier rivers they feed...
...Parisian; stunning chorus girls from the designs of Divine Providence; and periodic blasts of song. The thing also seems to have a plot, something about a girl from Manhattan slums who became famous in the Folies Bergere. In his most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually incessant Black Bottom. In Manhattan Mary, he supplies a prospective successor-the Five Step. Mr. White himself momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance...
...Black Velvet. This title is descriptive of skin pigments in blackamoors, the play descriptive of events surrounding the liason of a nice white boy with a jaunty yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...Walton, N. Y., came well-named Robert Carver North, aged 12. Lecturing in a Methodist church, he showed pictures of streams far away under big strange trees, of mysterious mischievous animals, of great mountains, of wide unfamiliar lakes in which shone, with the regular rhythm of a clock, the black night sky or, in the daytime, the reflection of green hills. These were photographs which he had made when on an expedition, consisting of himself and one Indian guide, 1,250 miles into the wilderness of Canada...