Word: estheticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Impossible only a year ago, this contrast was the visible result of a year's steady work by the new chairman of Harvard's Department of Architecture, Bauhaus-Founder Walter Gropius (TIME, Feb. 8. 1937). Nobody would be less disposed than Herr Gropius to exaggerate the merit of...
Dangerous to Know (Paramount) is a glowering melodrama with artless plot, artful production. Akim Tamiroff, alumnus of the Moscow Art Theatre, has had 60-odd Hollywood roles, nearly all of them brooding and villainous, most of them whiskery. In this picture he is a thin-mustached, esthetic bigwig racketeer who...
"The motive for introducing murals and sculpture into subway stations is an obvious one: the wish to combat an atmosphere which is always lugubrious and occasionally sinister. . . . Manufacturers of breakfast-foods, hair tonics and other springboards to the better life have for years covered the walls of subway stations with...
Apparently not counting on the respect of young voyagers for any future esthetic effects, the prospective subway artists considered one of their problems to be that of finding mediums which no pencil could mutilate. Murals would also have to be resistant to vibration, dirt and cold. Technical aid on these...
In key with the rustic humors of the play (and with the Mercury Theatre's economical practice), the stage setting is built of unfinished boards against a backdrop of homespun. Without any intermission, the action overflows between three small inner stages and out into the audience on the forestage...