Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Necker. A citizen of Manhattan, wearing a $35 suit of "tweed" clothing, bought tickets to The Great Necker. He noted with pleasure that it was "a new comedy of modern life." For him, this statement was not contradicted as its ageless plot unfolded. He laughed to see the blatantly promiscuous bachelor of forty-five summers getting engaged to a sixteen-year-old in the innocent delusion that she was unsophisticated as well as sweet. He chuckled with delight to see her mother, a movie censor, drinking strong fruit punch in the assurance that it was denatured grape-juice. When...
...Cherry Orchard. This, by all accounts, is the best play ever written by famed Anton Chekhov; which, for many intelligent persons, makes it the best modern play written by anyone at all. It was previously offered to Manhattan audiences, in highly pantomimic Russian, by the Moscow Art Theatre, thereby allowing its witnesses to detect, beneath a bucket of gibberish, the light of an inextinguishable beauty. Presented now in carpentered English, for a series of special matinees, the glory of the play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their...
...following article on the exhibition of modern American Indian paintings at present on view at the Fogg, was written by a member of the museum staff...
...Fogg Museum there is a unique exhibition of paintings done by the modern American Indian and lent by Miss M. C. Wheelwright, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Miss A. E. White. Most of the pictures come from the region around Santa Fe. There has been an attempt to have the Indian develop a distinct art of his own, based on the design and color of the older traditions. Most of these paintings portray various ceremonies of peace and war. However, many of the war dances are in reality peace dances performed in a religious spirit to celebrate the close...
...well worth a trip to the ninth floor of the Annex Building at Jordan Marsh's to see the collection of some two hundred modern French paintings which forms part of the general exposition of Art in Trade now in progress throughout the store. The paintings are shown under the official auspices of the Association Francaise d'Expansion et d'Echanges Artistiques and are a selection of works shown in Paris in the Salon d'Automne. They are all by contemporary French artists. With possible exceptions like Andre, Denis, d'Espagnat, Vlaminck, there are few names that approach being famous...