Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from getting an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color in the dust and grime. After a day or two no one noticed...
...Name and A Woman's Prerogative into near showstoppers. The show's boisterous finale, with a frenzied crowd perched on rooftops and stepladders for a sneak-view of Augie's big race, has freshness, bounce. Lemuel Ayers's sets and costumes have musicomedy splash and color. But the audience, to earn its candy, has to get down a full plateful of spinach...
Kate Greenaway owes much of her fame to Color-Printer Edmund Evans, who discovered and sponsored her, and engraved her drawings. Another of Evans' discoveries was Randolph Caldecott, born in 1846, whose centenary was also celebrated last week. Kate Greenaway envied Caldecott's wit. Most illustrators were more inclined to envy Caldecott's sure sense of movement, which set a new standard for fast action on paper. His books (John Gilpin's Ride, Three Jovial Huntsmen, etc.) were as boyish and gay as Greenaway's were girlish and sweet...
...most of the critics raved. Cried Combat: "Eisenstein has found again his incomparable style." The conservative Paris-Matin found "a power and color that not even American films have ever given us." Even Figaro, which panned the film for "extravagance, exaggerated looks and declamatory gestures," recognized "Eisenstein's accomplished art." The Socialist weekly Gavroche went all out: "This film crushes with its monumental mass everything that French screens have known since the beginning...
Romeo & Juliet turned out to be the victims of color prejudice. Broadway Director Harry Wagstaff Gribble saw it that way, and so prepared to produce the tragedy with colored Capulets and white Montagues. The new Juliet: beauteous Hilda Simms, currently the title-role streetwalker in Anna Lucasta...