Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the result that many of the less competent players are absent. In the chorus there are new youthful faces. The stodgy old ballet has been replaced by the new U. S. organization founded two years ago by Lincoln Kirstein and Edward M. M. Warburg (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). More care has been given to scenery, costumes, lighting...
...milk-&-gruel attack upon authority and pious idealism." Nevertheless, nobody but Eugene Brieux has since staged the tragedy of venereal inheritance so terribly as Ibsen. As for timeliness, the final "mercy murder" in Ghosts might have been cribbed from last month's front pages (TIME, Nov. 18 et seq.). At any rate, the drama offers in the intricate role of Mrs. Alving a challenge for any actress, no matter how great...
...bloody, brutal process in which Russia's more prosperous small farmers were shot by the thousands and deported to Siberia by the hundreds of thousands for opposing Dictator Joseph Stalin's will to force every last Russian peasant into a collective farm (TIME. Nov. 26. 1928 et seq.). Today a fresh battle has opened over Stakhanovism and thus far enraged workers have done most of the shooting. In coal mines, factories, railways and even on the Dictator's favorite collective farms in recent weeks desperate Russian workers have slain Stakhanovites. Pride & Sabotage. Six months ago the most...
...court-studded existence the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers has fought many a stiff fight to collect revenue for its members when their music was publicly performed. Radio even prompted the Federal Government to charge ASCAP with violation of the Anti-Trust Law (TIME, July 1, et ante). The case is still pending but odds so far have favored ASCAP, which has made no bones about controlling the bulk of the popular music on which Radio depends...
...with respect when Dr. Myrtle Byram McGraw speaks on baby training. In the Normal Child Development Clinic of Manhattan's Neurological Institute, Assistant Director McGraw took two pairs of identical twins, turned one member of each pair into a prodigy of confidence and skill (TIME, Sept. 18, 1933 et seq.). Last week pretty, inventive Dr. McGraw told members of Manhattan's Town Hall Club about a new twist in her campaign for brighter babies...