Word: chromaticisms
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"The Crown Is Mine." "Melpomene and Thalia have been surpassed," cried the Romantics when Dumas' play Henri III was first presented. Pandemonium broke loose. The audience "stood up, as if seized with madness." "The crown is mine," cried Dumas, and bought himself chromatic waistcoats and a pince-nez dangling...
Like the practice, the theory sounds almost too simple. When light is focused on a film by a lens, the various colors do not come to a focus at exactly the same distance from the lens. Violet and blue light are more sharply bent in their path than is red...
The show, held at Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery (owned by the son of Painter Henri Matisse), contained 16 canvases. First impression of so much Chagall in one room was like falling through space closely pursued by open cans of the three primary colors. Gradually the chromatic confusion resolved...
Like most gossips, Jimmie Fidler, onetime extra, onetime editor of Screenland, does not underestimate his own importance. As soon as he broke with CBS, he prepared an official statement, lugubriously entitled "Radio Censorship Unbearable," sent it to FCC Chairman J. Lawrence Fly, and Senators like Wheeler & Nye. His chief gripe...
Villa-Lobos realized that music could thus be charted from business indices, people's profiles (turned on their side), or even a random scrawl. As director of Brazil's public musical education, he tried out his idea on school children. Last week many a Brazilian moppet, playing at...