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Sophisticated observers regarded the venture as a freakish experiment, pooh-poohed the idea that a troupe could succeed without women to decorate it. But in less than two years Ted Shawn has made a success. With no capital, he took to the road when times were darkest. In 1933-34 he and his dancers visited 115 cities. This season's record was 125, with sufficient profit for the dancers to go this week to London where they have hired His Majesty's Theatre...
This odd locution would seem more startling were not the other characters in After Office Hours equally freakish in their mannerisms. The hero, Jim Branch (Clark Gable), is a managing editor who, for no apparent reason, wears a pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high...
...Originally, rodeo events, like riding '"outlaw" horses and roping cattle, were tests of cowboys' ability to perform their chores. Spectacular frills arrived later. A Negro cowboy named Bill Pickett introduced steer-wrestling some 25 years ago, dared his confrères to copy it. In addition to freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week's world series rodeo included also a mounted basketball game, in which a team of cowboys challenged all-comers; performances by stunt horses; a juvenile chariot race; singing of hillbilly songs rarely heard except by radio west of the Hudson River...
George Antheil branded himself seven years ago as the most freakish of U. S. composers. He grew up in Trenton, N. J., went to Paris to live when he was 20. After six years he celebrated his homecoming by putting on in Manhattan his Ballet Mecanique with ten pianos, wind machines, an airplane propeller, assorted horns, whistles and bells. The critics' jeers drove him back to Paris. Lately he claimed that he had reformed. Helen Retires was to illustrate his conversion to melody. But basically most of its music seemed just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student...
...dusty horn of wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing in an exhibition arranged by jovial William Allen White, onetime Governor Henry J. Allen's wife deplored: "Cyclones . . . are certainly to be found in Kansas, but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life...