Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper money is a little better than the average trading-stamp, and a trifle inferior to the usual tobacconist's rebate coupon. . . . The words are there and the letters are there?evidently graphic signs intended to convey a meaning?but they are inscribed in such a fashion and distributed in such a way that every effort of the mind to grasp their significance is frustrated. . . . And this document?this singular document?stands as the prime symbol of value in the infinite transactions of a great commercial nation. It is worth its face in gold, but, my God! what a face...
...Discussing the nest of acanthus leaves round the fat figure 5 in the corners he writes: "No merest tyro in the draughting-room of a wallpaper plant that catered to the Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then...
...opera, for weeks a matter of front-page concern in Manhattan, was definitely decided upon last week by the Metropolitan Opera Association. Since Depression started, aviation companies have cut their seat-prices, steamship berths are cheaper. The Metropolitan is attempting to solve its financial difficulties in the same fashion. Orchestra seats will cost $7.15 as against $8.25 this year. Seats in other parts of the house will be correspondingly cheaper...
...Rose Bampton. Finally came Philadelphia's Conductor Leopold Stokowski, wearing the full black cravat which, with his halo of light hair, makes him look like an erect, dandified David Belasco out of the age of inno- cence.* Philadelphia's Academy of Music stage was set in this fashion last week for the U. S. premiere of Gurrelieder, a choral-symphony by Austrian Arnold Schonberg, most extreme of all musical extremists. No fewer than 532 persons were required to give it: 400 choristers from the Princeton Glee Club, Philadelphia's Fortnightly Club and the Mendelssohn Club; an orchestra...
...exhibition of unusual interest is being offered this month by the Fogg Museum with a display of the works of Joseph Turner. The exhibit takes Turner stage by stage from the beginning of his stage career and shows in incomparable fashion the various periods of his career. Excellent examples of each period are included in the collection, which is now presented for the first time as a group...