Word: picnicers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure, is there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy a divorce from Bess for a dollar and a half; the marvelous scenes of a score of bodies swaying in rhythm as they chant for the dead; these are local color of the highest grade, but they are also integral parts...
...staging does not lag behind the music in effectiveness. There are only three changes of scene, but the varying lights and groupings make all three powerful, especially the few minutes after the picnic, in a heavy, blue-green palmetto jungle, when the exile Crown meets his erst while woman Bess and keeps her until it is too late for her to return to Porgy...
...Vassar as seldom as they can. Not that we've noticed this discrepancy or anything; but just to forewarn prospective-football audiences we think they ought to know the reason for the slight. It seems we are too active. We are apt to take them on long walks, a picnic, or a round of golf...
Sirs: In these days of much ado about Farm Relief, you may be interested in what the Guernsey breeders have to say about it. In their picnic at River Falls, Wis., on June 4 as you will note on the attached sheet, they sang to the good old tune "I've been working on the railroad" the lines on the enclosure. May I suggest as a headline, "Udder Nonsense...
...Queen Mary's birthday the royal family was so encouraged at King George's apparent recovery that they celebrated quietly by having a picnic at Frogmore. The sun was shining, but the air was chilly. Watchful attendants noted that His Majesty occasionally snuffled...