Word: mime
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took time off for tea in Ayot St. Lawrence with Bernard Shaw. "It was a very happy and spontaneously merry occasion," reported Shaw's author-neighbor Stephen Winston (Days with Bernard Shaw). "They put on a joint act . . . there was no conversation . . . quite spontaneous and carried out in mime. Danny sat on the lawn looking whimsical and picking daisies. And G.B.S. strode up to him and slapped him merrily on the back . . ." Said Showman Kaye to Showman Shaw: "I can quite see, G.B.S., why you have a certain disrespect for actors-there are none as good...
...chief plot of "Les Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...
...most beautiful chord. If it's a dance, it's the most exciting dance. It's dizzy-making-loaded with personality. It's rhythm, energy, humor, vitality, and sex all wangled into one." Also wangled: shades of Bea Lillie, Agnes de Mille, Noel Coward and Mime Angna Enters...
...Patineurs (Ballet Theater), a slithery skating party arranged by British Choreographer Frederick Ashton. Dancers (without skates) mime ice skaters just as ice skaters have been miming ballet dancers for years...
Based on an idea of Dance-Mime Angna Enters', Lost Angel is a fable about a foundling who is adopted by a platoon of psychologists, given the name of Alpha, and crammed to the scalp with Chinese, sociology, polysyllables, pure reason. At six, Alpha runs into a sentimental newshawk who is appalled when she says, of his sheet, "Reactionary, isn't it?" He is shocked when he finds she knows no fairy tales, has no childish belief in magic. On a tour of Manhattan he shows her magic in a sandwich man whose shirt front lights...