Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilde is a playwright exceedingly sensitive to production. The Actors' Theatre has done amazingly well by him this time and the results are most diverting. Lucille Watson, Patricia Collinge, Reginald Owen, Vernon Steele and Dudley Digges were shrewd selections for the various delicately incisive roles. Strangely enough even the...
"Her art is an exotic radiance, less than music, less than great acting, but more than these put together."?J. Brooks Atkinson.
Professional ichthyologists of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch...
If I fail to be present in the Germanic Museum at 11 o'clock this morning, may my name be erased forever from the roster of the Ancient Order of Vagabondage. To miss a discussion of the novel would be unfortunate, but to miss such a discussion into which has...
The Vagabond has often been denounced as a mere aesthetic dilettante, an intellectual butterfly flitting from lecture hall to lecture hall, and sipping nectar from the more exotic flowers of the curriculum. This morning I intend to free myself forever from this imputation, for the early hour of 9 o...