Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the circus will be represented at the Smoker in the person of two dwarfs and a giant, but the chances of seeing the Terror, billed as the largest ape ever kept in captivity, are remote. Frank Buck, of "Bring them back alive" fame, may supplement this performance...
...Brancusi piece, entitled Sculpture for the Blind (see cut), was simply a large egg smoothly carved in marble and resting on a rough marble base. A blind person might find pleasure in feeling it. Hans Arp's rounded wood carving was called Sculpture Conjugate because his wife worked on it too. In defense of both, long, indignant letters began to uncurl in London newspapers. Director Guggenheim swore that she would pay the duty if necessary but the show must go on. Liberal members rose in the House of Commons and spoke haughtily of J. B. Manson. It may have...
...Baxter, who attends classes mainly in the principal's office. With a talent for head-on collisions, always ingenious, never crafty, always there with an answer, never with the right one, brash, bouncing, rumpled, rattled, rueful by turns, Henry grows into that rare thing on the stage-a person...
Last week sad-eyed Balletmaster Balanchine announced his resignation, taking his American Ballet with him, and Manager Edward Johnson began casting about for new dancers and choreographers. Said ex-Metropolitan-Balletmaster Balanchine: "I would never advise a talented person to go to the Metropolitan. My dances the critics and dowagers did not like. They were too good...
Orchestra Leader Vincent Lopez took out a copyright on his new, streamlined version of The Star-Spangled Banner, became the only person to hold a copyright on the U. S. national anthem...