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...joined the procession. When famed German Modernist Dancer Mary Wigman visited the U. S. in 1930-31, the U. S. home-grown modernist dance had already taken root. But Wigman's U. S. tours added a trail of disciples to "the modernist ranks. Chief among these was blonde, muscular Hanya Holm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Assemble | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Marriage Announced. Jon Hall (real name: Charles Locher, pronounced Lo-shay), 25, muscular, part-Tahitian cinemactor (Hurricane), second cousin of Hurricane's co-author James Norman Hall; to Frances Langford, 25, cinema singer (Palm Springs, Bom to Dance, Hollywood Hotel) who was a soprano until a tonsillectomy made her a contralto; in Prescott, Ariz.; secretly, fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...shells, bombs and books, live workers and dead soldiers. Obviously inspired by Orozco, it differs from the Mexican's work in the technical exactitude with which Engineer Egleson painted factories and machinery, the sobriety of the human figures, wooden in comparison with Orozco's energetic and muscular people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Publicized Murals | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: TAC | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...teachers it might have been more significant had it been written in plain English instead of clinical jargon. Sample: "Music and rhythm, apparently are facilitating factors for several types of learning. Diserens found that music delays fatigue, speeds up voluntary activities, increases the extent of many muscular reflexes, reduces and changes suggestibility and alters the electrical conductivity of tissues." In other words (Playwright Noel Coward's) : "Extraordinary how potent cheap music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wildflower | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

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