Word: jo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soporific rigmaroles, her echolaliac incantations, her half-witted-sounding catalogs of numbers; most of us read her less & less. Yet, remembering especially her early work, we are still aware of her presence in the background of contemporary literature-and we picture her as the great pyramidal Buddha of Jo Davidson's statue of her, eternally and placidly ruminating the gradual developments of the processes of being, regis- tering the vibrations of a psychological country like some august human seismograph whose charts we haven't the training to read." Such esoteric experiments as Have They Attacked Mary He Giggled...
...Frances Jo Wagner" was hired as a file clerk in the office of Advertising Man Bruce Barton, After a few weeks one Hugh King came and panted that Barton had been intimate with his wife, Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King. "Frances Jo Wagner" left. Later the man sued his wife for divorce, naming Bruce Barton as corespondent, sued Barton for alienation of affections. On advice of his company's lawyers Barton settled for $25,000 and got quit-claims from man & wife. Last November the woman sued for $250,000 more, charging that Barton had warned other advertising agencies against...
...were molding with voodoo rites a special silver bullet. The far-away sound of tom-toms told Jones his game was up. With a panama hat on the back of his head, Emperor Jones Tibbett, whistling "Swanee River." abandoned his palace, started into the dark Caribbean jungle designed by Jo Mielziner...
Some of the most impressive settings in the exhibit are the work of Jo Mielziner, who has done a good number of the settings for the Theatre Guild. His series of sketches for the "Red General" a play concerning the Russian Revolution, have a keen sense of theatricality and unusual atmospheric effects. It is interesting to note that he is now at work on settings for "The Emperor Jones" of Eugene O'Neill, which is to be produced by the Metropolitan Opera Company this winter. The sketch for the Throne Room scene from this play is included in the exhibition...
Other exhibits are Norman-Bel Goddes' works for the "Divine Comedy," and Jo Mielziener's designs for "Emperor Jones." Leo Simonson '09, Aliene Burnstein, and Donald Owenslager are also represented...