Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much play, it is a lot of show. It not merely makes the humorous best of British courage and obstinacy under trial. It also has a range of breath-taking sound effects, from the audible eruption of a W.C. to German bombing raids (recorded in London). It runs the gamut of the tear-jerking situations which can confront a family in wartime. And it exploits all the emotions aroused in the U.S. by the war-even to political gags at which America Firsters clap and a set (by Jo Mielziner, showing bomb-Blitzed London) which, without a line being spoken...
...faces, tree roots, fried eggs, birds and feet, looked a little like elaborate sculptural reliefs. Abstractionist Feininger's subject matter was also recognizable, but his ships and buildings looked, when he was through with them, like earthquakes viewed through a shattered plate-glass window. Abstractionist Kandinsky ran the gamut from fairly conventional, mosaic-like landscapes to amoebic shapes painted on plaster-like surfaces. Most typical Kandinskys were in crescents and triangles, resembled an explosion in a kaleidoscope factory. Abstractionist Miro had littered potato-sack burlap with insectile, wire-worky lines, spots and doodads. Miro's titles were less...
...data, the critics fell to raving about her theatrical versatility. In Lady in the Dark she does virtually everything but play a trombone solo. She is on the stage almost all the time. Gertie (age 42), who offstage has never been in a psychoanalyst's office, runs an emotional gamut from the romanticism of a schoolgirl in her teens to the neurotic distress of a mature young woman. She sings sweetly, does high kicks and jazz steps (though with the years they seem somewhat angularly British). She models as few other women could an ar ray of costumes ? from...
...Manhattan novelist who has a paramour in her publisher's office. Unfortunately her old friend and sister authoress, Peggy Wood, has a young daughter who takes the paramour's eye and eventually his heart. In three acts full of adroit handkerchief work Cowl runs a gamut of politely contained emotions and achieves resignation in the end-with the help of old acquaintance. At one point, where she snuffles back her tears, she brings off a little masterpiece of nasal dramatics. Meanwhile Peggy Wood has given a witty picture of a blonde, bird-brained, overdressed, likeable soul...
...were its productions of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and T. S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral, the Negro Swing Mikado, etc. But Hallie Flanagan is especially proud of the socio-esthetic achievement as a whole, of the fact that millions were given a wide gamut of drama from Euripides to O'Neill, as well as musical comedies, pageants, ballets, puppet shows, children's plays, foreign-language productions, radio programs. She gets a lot of what she feels into a poem about the Theatre's Florida activities. Excerpt...