Word: colors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that made clear the already too obvious moral of the piece and then hurried off to dress for a performance of Don Juan in the Salzburg theatre that evening. Messrs. Reinhardt and Gest returned to a rehearsal of Turandot. Critics next day were loud in praise of the "medieval color" of Herr Reinhardt's arrangement, of the quality of the musical accompaniment (by Einar Nilson, musical director of The Miracle). Only one commentator ventured to suggest that "most miracle plays are dull. . . ." Everyman amused people very long ago. The earliest edition of the text is that "imprynted at London...
...being what they are. But it is so interesting. . . ." Dr. C. Everett Field, Director of the Radium Institute of New York was receiving newsgatherers at his laboratory. "Here," he said "look at this blue dish. This was a yellowish glass. We used it in our radium work. Gradually the color changed from yellow to this beautiful blue." He showed them other glass that had been rid of ugly colors and rendered clear blue-white. He showed them diamonds turned in a few days from low-priced jaundiced stones to gems of apparently the first water. How long these stones would...
...chemists have since corrobated the green effect in radiumized diamonds. Dr. Field is first to announce a blue-white effect. Other experiments with radium have turned pink synthetic sapphires red or orange; a white sapphire yellow; blue sapphires gray or brownish green; a colorless topaz to amber's color...
...hero, an ambitious graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is discouraged, disillusioned, thoroughly seduced and debauched by a saffron sadist who curses her race tor its jealousy of "rising" members and its hypocritical renunciation ot "nigger" instincts. There is no health in the book, no humor. There is feverish color, hot animalism, degradation. Whether he has told the truth or not-and the glossary appended shows that he at least knows Negro language-jaded Author Van Vechten will, henceforth, probably avoid the headquarters of Negro self-betterment...
...rounded contentment" with a supple, unpossessive Cornish girl, Jennifer. But she dies in childbirth and Tom wanders the oceans again, to shed life's monotony at last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson, has sailed many an ocean between spells...