Word: electra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike sexy Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra, Emperor Jones contains no love motif. O'Neill's hero was a Negro convict, a one-time Pullman porter, crapshooter, murderer, who escaped to the West Indies, called himself Emperor, bled his native subjects until they turned on him, chased him into the jungle and destroyed him. Two grotesque African gods pillared the stage when the Metropolitan curtain went up last week and an off-stage chorus started shouting "He mus' die." Brasses blared savagely against a rattle of percussives. The first short scene made Metropolitan listeners fear that...
Robert Edmond Jones, probably the most important of American stage designers today is represented by two of his drawings for the settings for "The Green Pastures," and the famous ship scene in Part II of "Mourning Becomes Electra," and several other settings, the best of which is the imaginative series for "Wozzeck," a short-lived play of a year...
Among the exhibits are to be found the works of several former Harvard men who are now outstanding in the ranks of theatrical designers. The designs for "Green Pastures" and "Mourning Becomes Electra" by Robert Edward Jones '10, and those for the ballet "Sadko" by Surgi Sudaykin are among the most noteworthy. Mr. Jones was for some time instructor in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard before taking up stage designing. Mr. Sudaykin came here from Russia in 1922 and is now the foremost exponent of modernism in opera...
Christine Galvosier, 19, lives in a household which her father (toothy, droll A. E. Matthews) describes with cheerful resignation as "a railroad station, with everyone waiting for a different train.'' Her mother (Alice Brady, released into comedy after funereal Mourning becomes Electra) is a charming flibbertigibbet who seldom sees her rascally son or impatiently virginal daughter. Result: Daughter Christine is seduced, impregnated by a youthful Egyptian. Enter tragedy...
Married. Dunbar Wright Bostwick, Yale polo and hockey player, brother of Gentleman Jockey George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick (TIME, June 27); and Electra Webb, great-granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt and of James Watson Webb; at Garden City...