Word: interpretations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpret this poster," he observed, "one side caricatures Chinese figures. One of them is smoking a pipe, evidently opium, and is lying upon a shelf in the same room with other figures who are employing various insanitary methods of washing clothes. Mice are running around. It seems to me that the printing and pictured effigies on this sign constitute criminal libel . . . and it seems to me that the picture attempts to ridicule all Chinese laundrymen including the complaining witnesses in this case...
Impromptu debates with Communist and Hitlerite hecklers enlivened the recent Ford Hall address of Dr. Ernst Jackh on the immediate political destiny of Germany. As soon as Dr. Jackh had finished a discussion of Nietzsche, he was forced to interpret Karl Marx to a questioning audience. The intelligent liberalism of the speaker was in sharp contrast to the inflexible dogmatism of his Communist interlocutors...
Casting of the play offered unusual difficulties because of the necessity of providing for a certain amount of physical resemblance between the members of the cast and the historical figures they interpret. Make-up and dress will play a large part in the effectiveness of the performance and special attention will be given to settings and the creation of the proper background...
...address, which will be preceded by a luncheon in the dining room for members, Mr. Thomas will interpret the differences between capitalism, imperalism...
...employers' backs. His employers are also burlesque characters, a circumstance which may confuse spectators until they remember the amusing cartoons with which the late Ralph Barton illustrated the Loos book. Evidently the actors of The Social Register took a good look at these illustrations while deciding how to interpret their parts. It is scarcely necessary to record that the chorus girl eventually gets her man in spite of his family...