Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasantness was not the idea. The mists & veils of Denishawn soon gave way to High Priestess Martha Graham's surrealistic fence-act. Frontier, and to stylized swaying and leaping by dead-pan Grahamite assistants. Favored by streamlined technique and by an early position on an anti-climactic program, mask-faced Graham's parsimonious convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol...
...performance, these old acts still seemed Angna Enters' best. Though the audience was gleeful the judicious grieved at the cheaper symbolism of a new piece called A Modern-Totalitarian Hero, or "The glory of living dangerously," in which Miss Enters appeared in a heavily bemedaled uniform and gas mask, went into mock ecstasies over a rose, then tore its petals off in rage at being pricked by a thorn...
...Nikolai Cherkassov in Baltic Deputy, Jackie Cooper in Boy of the Streets, Danielle Darrieux in Mayerling, Greta Garbo in Camille, Robert Montgomery in Night Must Full, Maria Ouspenskaya in Conquest, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Mathias Wieman in The Eternal Mask, Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall. Unmentioned was Hollywood's 1937 pride, Paul Muni (Zola), recently accorded a niche in Hollywood's Hall of Fame in the Carthay Circle Theatre...
...splendor of British pageantry was relied on to silver-line the cloudy fact that at this session of Parliament the last measures to insure a gas mask for everyone in the United Kingdom are to be taken under direction of Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. This potent statesman who in recent years gave India her new Constitution then made "The Deal" with Mussolini and next placed the Royal Navy on a $525,000,000 Rearmament footing, last week showed King George and Queen Elizabeth the new type gas mask of which 45,000,000 are being provided. It encloses both...
Banker Gates, who had danced for the Mask & Wig Club as an undergraduate at the U. of P. (Class of 1893) and gone on to become one of Philadelphia's richest men, became bored with private banking in 1930, resigned as a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. to seek "romance and high adventure" in running his old university, which he insisted on doing without pay. Soon he put Education on a business basis, balancing the budget by reducing expenses from $9,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, projecting a 15-year money-raising program to replace...