Word: dimensional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The dream begins with a dreamlike name, "Le Palais de France." Its solid basis is a trapezoidal piece of Manhattan Island, 200 feet in shortest dimension, 498 feet in longest, just north of Columbus Circle, comprising the entire block in which the Century Theatre now stands. On this plot the...
Much is being said now about the introduction of the third dimension, that of depth, into the motion picture which, in its present state of development, gives an impression only of length and breadth, with but little perspective. I look forward to seeing many productions of the new type on...
...theatre is due largely to the abilities of his art director, Claude Bragdon. Claude Bragdon's fame lies principally outside the theatre; largely in fact, it exists in the fourth dimension for it washe who translated Ouspensky's Tertium Organum and wrote, among other works, Four Dimensional Vistas. When Einstein came to the U. S., Bragdon was one of the first named as belonging to that hypothetical "ten" who understood the master's theory of relativity. Especially was Claude Bragdon interested in mathematical metaphysics as applied to esthetics, for by profession he is an architect. Among...
The Significance. The play was strange, not only by reason of its length. Playwright O'Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile...
The Idea: "Furniture of the 4th Dimension." The Motive: To make small flats efficient; to follow skyscraper architecture; to initiate black, grey, silver as in modern dress. The Story: "When we have cast aside the sedulous mimicking of modes of a bygone era, then and then only shall our decorative...