Word: blau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
...Germans adopted "Blau" gas, a mixture of several gases obtained by cracking petroleum. The gas prepared to take the Graf Zeppelin back to Germany is ethane, extracted from natural gas. It is asserted that ethane is not only cheaper to produce than Blau gas but is a better fuel. Germany, which has little natural gas, cannot produce...
Last week, a certain Bela Blau of Manhattan announced the formation of a theatrical corporation, temporarily called Bela Blau, Inc., which is substantial financially and in personnel. Next season the deliberate production of two or three plays is contemplated. If they are successful, a subscription system will be instituted. Out of a projected capitalization of $150,000, more than $100,000 has been raised. Plays are being read, actors interviewed...
Executive Director Blau, an amiable, dark-haired little man of the age the English call "thirtyish," is a native of Nagy-varod, Hungary. He has spent most of his life in the U. S. For eight years he taught Economics at the College of the City of New York. As a certified public accountant he had as a client the Theatre Guild, for which he devised a "fiscal week" sys tem. Each Saturday night the books were closed, reckoning made. Systematizing backstage procedure, he fell naturally into stage managing. Goat Song and Androcles and the Lion were...
During a trial flight of the Count Zeppelin the Blau gas was alternated repeatedly with the ordinary mixture of benzol and gasoline without causing the slightest trouble to the new type Maybach motors, the first time in the history of aerial navigation that a gas had been used as fuel. "Our passengers," said Dr. Eckener, "did not even know that we had been running on gas until I told them...