Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls himself "the Vermillionaire" because of all bright colors he likes the reds best. Vermilion was therefore the predominant color in the most vivid art exhibition of the season which opened last week at New York's Marie Harriman Gallery. On view were a succession of carefully drawn studies that might be landscapes, trees, sky, the ends of old houses and narrow streets, but were actually elaborately conceived studies in pure color, psychologically akin to the huge abstractions of Pablo Picasso...
With the greatest of gusto and good humor he ceaselessly tries to explain his theories of the emotional value of color, and in particular his fondness for brilliant reds. Slow-witted listeners generally retire baffled, content that the "Vermillionaire's" colors, whatever they may mean, are pure, shrewdly chosen, and form most decorative patterns...
...most critics Stravinsky was most inspired during the four Paris years that followed. His Firebird was a blaze of color, marvelously decorative in every detail. Year later came Petroitchka, with Nijinsky enacting the poor sawdust puppet who briefly had a soul. In that exuberant work woodwinds ran riot and to many they seemed altogether tuneless...
...Flynn (libretto, lyrics & music by Brian Hooker, Russell Janney & Franklin Hauser; Russell Janney, producer) is the first musical romance to reach Broadway since last winter's Richard of Bordeaux (TIME, Feb. 26). A great many people liked Richard of Bordeaux for its color and pageantry. They should find The O'Flynn even more to their taste. A sword-&-cloaker of the first water, nimbly directed, eminently tuneful, scenically as magnificent as Hollywood's best, The O'Flynn tells a full-blooded tale about the battles between William of Orange and James II in Ireland...
...cigars were made in the U. S. last year. Of these half a billion used no bands. Of the rest, 70% or 3,500,000,000 had bands made by Consolidated Lithographing Corp. of Brooklyn, biggest cigar-band manufacturers in the world. It takes a 30-ton embossing machine, color presses, a cutting machine, a varnishing tray and eleven operations to make an ordinary cigar band. And after all that, the first thing nearly every cigar smoker does is to tear off the band and throw it away...