Word: jo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followers of Jo Stalin may relapse now into a state of complacent triumph, for they have won the debate. The Austrian Socialists depended on leaders so imbued with the glories of constitutionalism that they compromised themselves into a hopeless position; nor were they, as the fugitive Bauer admits, goaded to a policy of spineless inaction by the conservatism of the rank-and-file; on the contrary, Dr. Bauer relates the difficulty the Party heads encountered in substituting "wise" and "cool" tactics for the "impetuosity" of the workers, who disliked seeing their organization being hamstrung without resistance. And when the Socialists...
...season's successful comedy, She Loves Me Not, has not acted since he played the scenario writer in Dulcy (1921). Kenneth MacKenna, who is currently being divorced by Kay Francis, sounds Scotch and specializes in Scottish roles, but his real name is Leo Mielziner Jr. His brother Jo designed the set of a spacious country living room that helps to make By Your Leave a comfortably familiar knickknack...
Opinions vary as to whether Norman Bel Geddes, "Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones or Jo Mielziner is the ablest scene designer in the U. S. But all critics agree that swarthy Artist Simonson is the most rationally articulate. A. B. Magna cum Laude at Harvard (1908), he loves a well-chosen word as well as a shrewdly-drawn line. Onetime editor of Creative Art, he has written innumerable essays, delivered hundreds of lectures. His latest book. The Stage is Set,* is not only a beautifully written history of the art of stage decoration but a Ph. D. thesis full...
...known U. S. designers was represented but, more often than not, settings for their best known plays were lacking. People looked in vain for Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Jest, Mourning Becomes Electra; for Bel Geddes' Miracle or Lysistrata; for Jo Mielziner's Street Scene...
...opened in Manhattan last week, with the most expensive premiere of the season, its audience had been led to expect the season's most exciting play. Producer Jed Harris, active on Broadway again after two years of noisily doing nothing, had assembled a good cast, fine sets by Jo Mielziner. For his lead, he had Katharine Hepburn who had left Broadway two years ago after a modest success in The Warrior's Husband. During that interval, with four cinema roles, she had made herself the most talked-about actress in the U. S. Too young...