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...Waterfront. Along the rough and bawdy Buenos Aires waterfront, in lamplit saloons and "dancing academies," the tango had long been danced by prostitutes and lawless toughies. It got into society by accident.To clean out the toughs, vigilante groups of rich young Argentines invaded the waterfront, stayed to learn the tango, later carried it to the ballrooms of France. Transplanted, the tango retained its sad, metallic tempo-one, two, three, pause-and continued to be danced by automatons whose torsos remained in expressionless rapture while their legs swept nimbly through the corte (cross step) and corrida (promenade). Actor Rudolph Valentino showed...
...Lamplit Target. The excitement, color, and fighting of Ben-Hur, though set in the Rome of the early Christian martyrs, came out of Wallace's own vivid experience, says Biographer McKee. He had been stimulated to think out his own religious convictions to answer the century's famed atheist, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. It took him seven years to write the novel. When three-quarters of the book was finished, he was recalled to New Mexico. Wallace worked on Ben-Hur in the governor's mansion at Santa Fe, an old building with grime-covered walls, rain...
Whined a flower girl on the steps of lamplit St. Paul's Cathedral: "All my flowers shriveled up, and the buds go brown with frost. Politics, I don't understand 'em. It's warmth I want...
...Sales: $10,000. On exhibition: the work of 2,000 Yankee citizens-tatting, wood carving, pottery, linoleum block prints, ironwork, jewel cutting (semiprecious stones), pins made from pine cones, baskets, buckwheat flour, etc. Most of it was spare time work done in back-street shops or snowbound, lamplit New England farmhouses. To meet stiff League standards, artisans can take lessons from League teachers (50? a lesson). They sell their wares readily to tourists at 20 League stores throughout the State, keep 80% of the retail price. So successful is League financing that imitative movements have sprung up in many States...
...lamplit and gaslit days of the U. S. theatre, few plays were published. Four years ago Barrett Harper Clark, historian and critic (Eugene O'Neill, A Study of the Modern Drama) of the drama, got an $8,000 grant (through Authors' League of America and the Dramatists' Guild) from the Rockefeller Foundation, began hunting for unpublished plays, of which he believes there are 20,000. In old actors' homes, in garrets of theatre folk, after devious detectification, Mr. Clark and his helpers found some 400 plays. As prime examples of Americana-but not of dramatic literature...