Word: gay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British program. An overture by the redoubtable Dame Ethel Smyth was commonplace noise. Delius was represented by a sensitive, finely spun dance from Koanga, a delicate serenade from Hassan. Vaughan Williams' London Symphony has seldom been made so eloquent, with its suggestion of the ever-rolling Thames, the gay street scenes leading up to a grim hunger march, the solemn, chimes of Big Ben. After Elgar's rollicking Cockaigne overture there were cheers for Sir Thomas, who suddenly appeared as unconcerned as when he made his entrance...
...Square was gay New Year's Eve. The University Theatre showed "In Person" and "Splendor" and standing room only prevailed after 8 o'clock. There was no midnight show, but there was one of those shorts in which, with much ringing of bells and to the tune of Auld Lang Syne the figures 1935 were swept away by Father Time's sickle and the figures 1936 gaily substituted...
...Cleopatra. The Serpent of the Nile was her first regal impersonation. Notwithstanding Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams' crack that she was suffering from "fallen archness," Miss Hayes still maintains: "I felt that my tiny Cleopatra was just right. It seemed to me that Shaw meant her to be a gay young numbskull.'' It seemed that way to the theatre going public, too, for Caesar and Cleopatra had a long and prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give her glory in good measure. Her What Every Woman Knows was a great personal and financial success...
This young couple's problem of incompatibility has been cleverly handled by Eager, who has brought to the stage a group of gay, interesting characters. They are as much at a loss to understand Ann's serious-minded husband, as poor David is to fathom them...
...radio tell the ghastly tale of how Army scored four touchdowns against Navy in 18 minutes. Thence he went forth to visit the Pine Valley Resettlement Project near his farm. There he began another speech, for delivery in Chicago to the Farmers' Federation next week, after his gay vacation in Warm Springs' pine-clad hills is over...