Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rotund Robert Macbeth, admitted that they were the Pratts of Long Island. Other important collectors were persuaded to buy U. S. art by soft-spoken William Macbeth: Miss Lizzie Bliss, Hotelman Edwin A. McAlpin, Hugh D. Auchincloss, Financier Stephen V. Harkness. Collector Emerson McMillan had such a passion for pictures that he used to come in with a little red notebook and demand...
...greatest printers: Daniel Berkeley Updike of the Merrymount Press. (The other: Free Lance Bruce Rogers.) Typographer Dwiggins wrote the advertising agencies' Bible, Layout in Advertising. He has designed several beautiful type faces and for many years has been retained by famed Mergenthaler Linotype Co. as typographical consultant. His passion for fine handwriting caused him to found the Society of Calligraphers. He still serves as its secretary under the pseudonym of Hermann Puterschein...
Through this grotesque panorama weaves a story telling how a beautiful trapeze artist (Olga Baclanova) came to be a freak who resembles a chicken. A midget (Harry Earle, who looks like a cartoon of Herbert Hoover) has a misguided passion for Baclanova. When she learns that he is rich, she tries to poison him. Swift & certain is the revenge of the Freaks, their faces sullen masks as they move silently through the underbrush, but you are not told how they make of Baclanova the legless, drivelling idiot that you see in the end. The featured players. Leila Hyams and Wallace...
...Waldemar, King of the Danes in the 14th Century, hero of a cycle of poems by Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still, dead and yet strong. . . . It was intermission. In the bleachers the choristers...
...Crow's money and industrialize all Glastonbury with its help, and John Geard, who with the help of his new-found wealth and the communist enemies of Philip Crow, gets himself elected mayor of the town. To advertise Glastonbury to the world at large, Mayor Geard stages a Passion Play, crossed with Arthurian Romance, for the town is near Stonehenge, and Arthur's sword and the Holy Grail make their appearances at times. What with mystic visions, and an unrivaled collection of sexual affairs, mostly clandestine or perverse, Novelist Powys allegorizes his conception of the "divine-diabolic soul...