Word: eva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. In the dance of Crossing The Icechoked River, the scene is set as follows: the entire stage floor is a drifting continuously pattern of irregularly squirming brightnesses: elsewhere lives black silence filled with perpetual falling of invisible snow. . Through the dance of Heavenly Longing, when little Eva dies, and the dance of The Rival Bidders, when Tom is sold to the ''bloodily luminous'' Legree, the movement of the poetic ballet is increasingly accelerated until Tom joins Eva in the dance of The Eternal Peace, "weightlessly uplifted within textures beneath knowledge. "Legree disappears, trumpets sound...
...ballet dancer. Just out of high school she won a beauty contest, and in the ensuing years did almost everything from performing in the Vanities and dancing in a Coney Island hotel to teaching swimming at a girls' camp and operating the telephone at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre...
Burgess Meredith began his brief career on Broadway two years ago by playing the Duck, Dormouse and Tweedledee in Eva Le Gallienne's production of Alice in Wonderland. He was a reform school hellion in Little Ol' Boy and a snippy Princetonian with white buckskin shoes in She Loves Me Not. For the past ten months he has been the voice of "Red" Davis, that hero of U. S. juveniles on the Beech-Nut radio hour. Grandson of a Protestant minister of Cleveland, Ohio, Meredith was sent to Manhattan to sing in the Cathedral of St. John...
When the last curtain fell on a performance of L'Aiglon in Pittsburgh, freckled Actress Eva Le Gallienne stepped across the footlights. Said she: "Some stars and actors, seeing this small house, wouldn't work. They'd say 'to hell with it' and loaf through their performances. I think you'll agree that each member of our company tonight has given his best. Do me a favor. Go out and get more people to come here and see our show...
Wearing a blue woolen chiton, black stockings, classical sandals, her red hair in two braids, Mrs. Angelo Sikelianos of Greece, who 32 years ago was Eva Palmer of Manhattan, trudged through the White House doorway one morning when the thermometer was -2° to keep an appointment with Mrs. Roosevelt. Their object: a conference on the "Delphic Movement" and the possibility of setting up a U. S. "hostel"' near the white marble ruins that strew the hillside of Mt. Parnassus where stood the ancient oracle of Delphi...