Word: outflung
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When Mary Wigman did her stark, muscular, barefoot dances before U.S. audiences in the early '30s, some of the irreverent wrote the exhibition off as prancing, lunging and posturing. But critics wrote respectfully of "a personal and spiritual force, concentrated, emanated, outflung." After 1933, like many another German artist, she was seldom seen and little noted by the rest of the world. Last week Mary Wigman, past 60 and vibrant as ever, turned up in Berlin to reopen her once-famed modern dance school...
...battlefields, pen & ink portraits of Generals Eisenhower and Clark, Correspondent Ernie Pyle. There were also nine sketches of dead bodies. One of the most effective, War Drawing No. u, showed a death-sprawled German infantryman, his mouth covered with a muffler, his unflung hand grenade lying near his outflung hand...
...about the subject. Manhattan's Suzanne Nicolas decided that divine law was the light, depicted Christ as lawgiver. Robert C. Koepnick of Dayton, Ohio felt that Christ's words were the light of mankind, showed Him preaching. Brooklyn's George Kratina went symbolic, depicted Him with outflung arms and spreading, streamlined garments, levitating overhead like a benevolent aurora borealis...
Africana. Since the tendency is for popular U. S. song & dance to follow closely after the ebullient crooning and outflung gesturing of primitive Africans, it is logical that the Negro revue should crop up more frequently, with growing success. In Manhattan, the nation's theatrical headquarters, only two new shows opened last week. Both were "black-&-tan" affairs. The better, Africana, has to its credit swift changes, amazing doggers, several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms...