Word: coasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners blowing saxophones or beating drums. Sil-houet prints contrast the curves of a roller-coaster runway with the straight lines of tall supports. The emphasis in the toboggan cars suggests a pattern of the Orient rather than Coney Island. So called "message prints" (letters of various sizes & colors printed on a lighter background) spell out such words as "It," "Cheerio" & "Je t'aime." Ticker...
...Coney Island, N.Y., one Harry Mann went for a ride on a Giant Coaster. On the rear seat sat a male and female, lovingly. Curious about their activities, Mann drew a mirror from his pocket, stood up in his seat, tottered, fell under the rear wheels, was ground to death...
...indeed! In describing the first night of John Howard Lawson's "Processional," Mr. Don Passos, who takes the play as his model, compares the surprise of the audience to that of a maiden lady on a roller coaster for the first time. To him, the drama as we have it is the work of such a maiden lady, and he wishes to substitute for it something comparable to the obvious popular method of the roller coaster, an engine which he appears to think has been a powerful instrument for good in the development of our American culture...
...Listening In" has many exciting moments. Indeed, as Jonathan Cumberland remarks to Mr. Morrison in the Prologue, "The action begins the moment you move in here." A house abandoned for twenty years lends manifold opportunities for holding the audience breathless, and if the thrills, like those of a roller-coaster, generally bring up short with a laugh, no one is the worse for it. Even the announced intention of the mysterious Mr. Morrison at the outset to prove that all spiritualism is the work of human hands does not impair the goose-fleshy qualities of Bleeker Hall. The fact that...