Word: cycloramas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profundity is this philosophy: let us be merry today for yesterday (1914-18) we died. To prove his point he wrote two strongly sentimental dramas. The first, Post Mortem (unproduced), exposes the social dissolution observed by a young ghost who returns from Flanders. The second, Cavalcade, is a tragic cyclorama which begins with the Boer War and ends in 1930 with the hope that "this country of ours may find dignity, greatness, and peace again." Here was something more than the world dared to expect from a "song & dance man." a range and flexibility of talent that was grounded...
Died, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, 82, French painter, Sevres porcelain art director; of old age; in Paris. He conceived the Wartime chore for aged & infirm French painters of painting the famed patriotic cyclorama, Pantheon...
...cyclorama of historical novels, reaching around from hoary antiquity to practically contemporaneous times, there are some highly pictorial spaces left comparatively blank. One such space, crammed with history not adequately fictionalized, is the period after Queen Elizabeth's death, when religious malcontents fled England for Holland, cleared out from there for a newer, presumably better world. Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers are the heroes & heroines of Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details...
...Rosa Ponselle's penthouse apartment a pair of blue & gold portieres hang as souvenir of the second stage of her career. They are a part of the cyclorama used by the Ponzillo sisters (Carmela & Rosa) in vaudeville. Carmela had gone to New York ahead of Rosa, worked as a cloak model and sung in a cabaret. She and Rosa were engaged for their sister act when they had no money left, no clothes except their street suits. When they arrived at the theatre for their first turn, the manager protested about their clothes. They told a cock-&-bull story about...
TIME used the word "canvas" in the sense of a decorative work of fine art. Cycloramas (spectacle pictures stretched circularly so that the spectator is surrounded by the scene) are far larger than Rockwell Kent's 6,400 sq. ft. ceiling at Dennis, Mass. Paul Philippoteaux, painter of the Holy Land cyclorama, was most famed for his cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg...