Word: lyrical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years ago, in a play of mine in rehearsal in the Lyric Theatre in London, the time was supposed to change from the present to 1783, during a blackout. We were afraid the audience wouldn't believe in this. So Professor Wood installed for us, against the theatre's back wall, one organ pipe, height circa 40 ft., the biggest pipe that could be carted through traffic and in the stage door. Its purpose was kept a mystery. Wood's idea was that the lowest of all notes, subaudible, but vibrating the eardrum, would produce...
...subaudible note was "sounded," or more accurately, turned on. I was reminded years later of the effect by the sound from the bowels of the earth that yet was no sound, that preceded the big shock of the Los Angeles earthquake. The glass in every chandelier in the old Lyric commenced to tinkle softly, the opaque windows in the balcony all rattled gently. And the wave of fear, according to shaken witnesses afterwards, seemed to sweep over them, not from the stage, as my plans demanded, but from the opposite direction, from outside, from Shaftesbury Avenue...
Radio entertainment, which began with hams playing phonograph records and broadcasting the girl friend's lyric contralto, is rapidly returning to its pristine simplicity. Not only in the U. S. have sponsors twigged to the fact that the simple news-character and game shows are cheapest. Last week came evidence that the trend was well established in Europe. British Broadcasting Corp. last week challenged chess-playing listeners to a match by radio and mail. Six staff members chosen to play BBC's game will broadcast their moves. Listeners will I counter by postcard. The broadcasting players will meet...
...Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing, mysterious, tender and pure. "He is not tall," rhapsodized Author Benjamin, "his body is timid. Ah! His glance is unforgettable...
Depending on the personality of the instructor, Greek B, which takes up the lyric poets in the first half year, was generally endorsed. Assistant Professor Finley reigns here and is well liked for the liveliness of his classes and his interest in literature. Einarson, who instructed in this course last year, is not recommended, partly perhaps, because his inexperience in class work makes his classes dull and because he is more interested in Philology than literature...