Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pupil of modernistic Arnold Schönberg. There were no conventional harmonies, no set songs. Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff (Wozzeck) sometimes spoke, sometimes sang his lines. Soprano Anne Roselle (Marie, Wozzeck's mistress) had music so hideously difficult that it defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon of colored lights for a beer garden; a street in the town all angles and planes...
...hold good authors. He set about to speed up the magazine, insisting on more and snorter stories in each issue, buying by the story, not by the word. He originated the "short short-story," complete on one page, first of which was written by Octavus Roy Cohen. Four-color illustrations were used in Collier's for the first time by any weekly. Collier's began to recapture some of its old pugnaciousness with special articles which, while they lost some old readers, gained more new ones. One such enterprise was a long series of reports on the effects of Prohibition...
...great Chinese library there. Dr. Rosenbach described how he had informed President Coolidge that the first edition (1865) of Alice in Wonderland was not to Lewis Carroll's liking and was therefore sup- pressed. President Coolidge had remarked: "Suppressed? I didn't know there was anything off-color in Alice...
...themselves which may have been more polite than purposeful. In the new Congress the Insurgent group will, more than ever before, hold the bal- ance of power, will be able to do the most with their economic program. Their activities at the next session (December to June, 1932) will color the whole presidential campaign. Last week's meeting served to emphasize the drift of Progressive opinion from Republican to Demo- cratic principles. To Progressives, President Hoover has become a hopeless reactionary; they have lost faith in winning any of their reforms through the Republican party. Democracy, they hope, will furnish...
...lease expires. The home of Robert Goelet was on the 49th St. corner. He could sell to the Rockefellers, but tore his house down to put up a modernistic office building on the site. He has agreed to build in keeping with the general scheme. Still undecided are the color and type of materials for the sheathing of Radio City. Mr. Goelet tried to make up Radio City's mind by building his building of green marble and white brick...