Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balcony of Juliet is a witness-box on which most good actresses have at one time stood for final appraisal. In her trial, Miss LeGallienne ran a conscientious gamut of flippancy, catlike nervousness, passion, despair. Donald Cameron's Romeo was comely but lethargic...
...11?First performance of the 1930 Passion Play, dramatizing the life of Christ; at Oberammergau, Bavaria...
...First performance of the 1930 Passion Play, dramatizing the life of Christ; at Oberammergau, Bavaria...
...were mimes. For the rest there was a chorus (17 artist-students from the Curtis Institute of Music) which chanted and wailed in Greek fashion. And important as either principals or chorus were lights. For Arnold Schönberg, being a painter as well as a composer, has a passion for color. He conceived his score with fading and blazing lights in mind. In the beginning the Man lies prostrate in the darkness with a monstrous batlike creature crouched on top of him. Then at the climax a piercing yellow fills the stage as the storm comes up, symbolic...
...great passion is for one, Sam Lee, the very respectable and eligible young gentleman whose lack of response arouses the old go-getting blood of the Wagners of soap fame. Suddenly she discovers that this object of her advances is a prince of the ancient house of Lee Ying and it is all off. The ninety-nine and fourty-four hundredths per purity must be saved at all events, so she preserves the Wagner dignity by beating Mr. Ying with a riding crop. Of course such an intolerable condition can't exist for long and a reconcilliation is reached...