Word: noguchi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Designer Bel Geddes: "I thought that overscaled gimmick at the entrance to the Pump Room was a statue of Ernie Byfield by Noguchi...
...director with a long Santa Claus beard, who showed him a cage containing not only animals but two pretty girls. This, said the director, was meant "to illustrate the oneness of all living things." Eckstein went to Japan to write a biography of Japanese Scientist Hideyo Noguchi. He also noted that Japan smells of excrement, as Norway smells of rotten fish and southern France of urine...
When 65-year-old Composer Stravinsky jumped briskly to the podium, he got an ovation. When the curtain went up, the audience was at first more taken with the simple blue & white brilliance of the set (by Isamu Noguchi) than with the somber opening chords of Stravinsky's music. But Orpheus turned out to be a brilliant wedding of score, choreography and setting. It was not, however, an incitement to riot, as its famed predecessor The Rite of Spring had been in Paris, 35 years ago. Composer Stravinsky, in white tie & tails, took his bows onstage with the dancers...
Died. Yomejiro Noguchi,* 72, Japanese poet and professor who in his younger days came to the U.S., married a Bryn Mawr girl (their son: Manhattan Sculptor Isamu Noguchi), then went back to Tokyo, where he discarded his Western wife and ideas, became a great booster of Japanese imperialism; of stomach cancer; in Toyooka, Japan...
...Microbe Hunter Hideyo Noguchi...