Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the word Allez, 51-year-old Bourdet was fighting mad, lunged wildly at 61-year-old Bernstein's chest and abdomen. At first Bernstein took it easy, then gradually matched his opponent's aggressiveness, finally gave Bourdet a poke in the arm. This ended the fight. But not for Bourdet. Snapped he: "This is only a theatre duel." Begging in vain for another go, he finally strode fuming off the field, without shaking Bernstein's hand...
...students of Manhattan's Music School Settlement, largest and second oldest-institution of its kind in the U. S. * The occasion: The Music School Settlement's annual uptown concert. But few of the children who performed at last week's concert are likely to become ambition-mad prodigies or struggling virtuosos. They are more likely to become mothers and fathers, sober citizens whose lives have been made more interesting through the study of music. For Manhattan's Music School Settlement, like Greater New York's 13 other community and settlement music schools (and over...
...took on the cumbrous play itself. When Heartbreak House was presented last week under Welles's direction and with himself in the leading role of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, even the dottiest Mercury fan could not help having qualms. For this more-than-three-hours-long,* brilliant Mad-Hatter symposium on modern life is among the most difficult of Shaw's major dramas: garrulous, subterranean, exhaustive. But, skirting a forest of unintelligibility on the one side, and a swamp of tediousness on the other, Welles has cut a clean if slightly winding road, has achieved a capital...
...pretensions of its people-who represent an entire civilization-are mercilessly exposed by a playwright who despises them. If, on the one hand, these characters are the prototypes for all the bughouse comedy that has recently come into vogue, on the other hand some of theare Hamlets feigning madness to avoid going mad in earnest. Heartbreak House has the deceptive structure of an accordion: pushed in, it looks like a congested comedy of eccentrics; but pulled out to its full length, with Captain Shotovers booming prophecies, with its stabs of pathos, with its acrobats who suddenly are transformed into...
Because she has overstayed her leave in the U. S., the Department of Labor ordered the arrest, when found, of Animal Tamer Mme Maria Rasputin Soloviev, statuesque daughter of "Mad Monk" Grigoriy Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the late Tsarina of Russia. Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the Labor Department did not know. Continuing his financial retrenchment, William Randolph Hearst sold over $100,000 worth of art treasures including Chippendale chairs. Georgian beds, silverware of the Charles II and William III periods. Purchaser: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who will place them in the Governor's Palace...