Word: exoticisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago, when gentlemen wore starched cuffs and ladies hid in corsets, musical shows were romantic, exotic and historical. The best of them, known as operettas, became minor classics and were repeatedly performed by stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S...
In a recent pair of editorials entitled "Classical Doldrums" the Crimson has shown that it is not bound by the old prejudice that education should be founded primarily on a study of the Classics. Instead, this newspaper is typically American in its blind attachment to the prejudices of its readers...
What is represented by the term "the Classics" in this University is a dull joke in the minds of too many of its students. Most of them have memorized and forgotten the slight vocabulary necessary to turn a given amount of Cicero into English and thus distinguish themselves by the...
Wajan (Dr. Friedrich Dalsheim and Baron Victor von Plessan), a sympathetic record of Balinese ritual, is much more fully clothed than its popular predecessor of six years ago, Goona-Goona. Its exotic climax, a witch-exorcising trance dance, gives pictorial point to the recent reporting of Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias (Island...
What exotic Cecil Beaton, the London and New York society photographer, was nonetheless expected to explain last week was this microscopic lettering discovered by Columnist Walter Winchell in a small corner of a sketch Artist Beaton did for the Feb. 1 issue of Vogue: "Mr. Andrew's ball at...