Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This underlying motif finds expression in the sinister blacks and purples of the costumes "Othello." In distinct contract are the gay and fanciful "Peter Pan" settings. In a few instances the author's vivid imagination carries him to the verge of the surrealistic. The lurid orange drapes and the swirling green backgrounds of his designs for "Salome" harmonize with the voluptuous sensuality of the dramatic action. Perhaps the ultimate in bizarre impressionism, however, appears in Sharpe's fantastic rendition of the "Dope Fiend's Dream." The artist here portrays the weird apparitions of the subconscious, blended together in a terrifying...
...lessons from Arthur Murray. To the story of Xieuw Amsterdam in the days of peg-legged Pieter Stuyvesant. the famed author of Mary of Scotland and Winter set has contributed a thick Dutch cheese of a book, while Composer Weill (Johnny Johnson) has filled Knickerbocker Holiday with gay, spirited, catchy tunes...
...last week-with Congress' return ten weeks off-the President began budget making. Since the next deficit looms at least $4,000,000,000 (his second largest), his first conferences with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Assistant Secretary John Hanes, Budget Director Bell could hardly have been gay...
...Leave It To Me!" is the title of the new Cole Porter musical which opened last night at the Shubert to applause that delayed the production half an hour but was more than deserved by all concerned. Calculated to delight the lovers of gay tunes and sprightly if at times questionable patter, the play offers fifteen songs, most of which do justice to their composer, and a laugh-packed book by Bella and Samuel Spewack...
...Sudeten, Su-day-ten or Sudeten? Is P-r-a-g-u-e pronounced Pray-ge, Prog or Prar-gay ? Radio announcers and news commentators do not seem to know...