Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half-hour before dinner for interviews or seeing friends. After dinner she naps for a half-hour before going to her dressing room for the evening's appearance. For efficiency's sake she lives on the roof of her theatre, with her four dogs and several canaries. The predominant color of the menage and all that is Le Gallienne?suits, stationery, draperies?is a rich blue...
...range from the informal Old English Round "The Peddlar" to Bach's formal choral "Sing Ye To The Lord." It is apparent that the singers are more at home in such folk-songs as the "Fum! Fum! Fum!" than in Brahms' "The Wall of Heaven"; but their ability to color and shade the simpler songs, to give these a real vitality, puts them among finished artists...
...rendered a program at Jordan Hall Sunday, is native to the State of California, and, to emphasize this fact, is dressed in bright costumes of Spanish origin, which are not particularly appropriate to the occasion or the program. With a few changes to a less jarring and more dignified color scheme this element of the entertainment could be made an organic and pleasing part of the performance...
...bronze-colored man, magnificently built, scrupulously dressed, walked on the stage in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week and waited quietly for his audience to settle. Then he began in a voice the color of his skin to sing "I Got a Home on a Rock, Don' You See." The singer was not Roland Hayes, although for years Hayes has been the only Negro to sell out a hall of Carnegie's size. Hayes is slight, frail-appearing. He sings spirituals artfully, in a high voice that is often reedy. The Negro who sang last week...
...half of the picture, especially the dance accompanying "Singing in the Rain", makes effective use of shadows and silhouettes; and the closing scenes, employing an enlarged screen, are among the few good bits of technicolor the movies have thus far offered. "In Orange Blossom Tinte", with its beauty of color and brilliant shots from strange angles, particularly makes one realize that artistic photography did not altogether pass out with silent pictures...