Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best acted and with the most finished scenery. The choice lies between Beatrice Major's "Thirty Minutes in a Street", with 20 characters in the cast, at one extreme, and Diona Barnes' "The Dove", with three, at the other. It is expected, however, that because of its gorgeous setting and costumes, Professor, Eliot will bring Dunsany's "Compromise of the King of the Golden Isles" to Boston...
...perfect presentation in the Metropolitan's repertoire; again Jeritza, in Fedora; then the "novelty" of the opening week, a double bill consisting of Cornelius' Der Barbier von Bagdad and Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, this latter with Lucrezia Bori; last of all Ponselle. amid that gorgeous exoticism L' Africaine...
...Significance. Here is an Elysian Held of fantasy out of which one will flush any number of gorgeous poetical pheasants, sly ironical foxes, and profoundly philosophical serpents. Shakespeare's Tempest is the most convenient comparison for beauty of writing. Feminism, immaculate conceptions and modern democracies are the chief butts of satire. Such a book has not been written since La Revolte des Anges...
...Paris, "Antoine the Knife Thrower," notorious apaché, was persuaded by the police to explain how he had managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...
...sensation of the chemists' convention last year (TIME, Sept. 22), was honored. (In its booth on the floor below the Court, this substance, a compound of phenol and formaldehyde, was shown, possessing strength, resisting heat, chemicals and electricity, possessing permanent color and finish. It was shown molded in gorgeous beads, rings, pendants, watch charms, necktie gauds; into smoking pipes, cigar holders like amber, glowing cane knobs, translucent manicure sets; into durable motor fittings, telephone instruments, tool handles...