Word: pit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author, Charles Gilman Norris, a Chicago merchant's son, was brought up in acquiescent eclipse. His "beautiful and restless and ambitious and fiery" mother, denied a stage career by wifehood, centred her hopes in her oldest son, the late Frank Norris (author of The Octopus, The Pit, etc.) Charles, youngest of six, got and sought no encouragement for "his little old solitary dreams" and his school and college writings. His rapid romance and marriage with Kathleen Thompson (author of Mother, The Heart of Rachael, Beloved Woman, Little Ships, The Black Flemings, etc.) are said to have rekindled his literary ambition...
...next month is scheduled to arrive the film version of Der Rosenkavalier, charming Viennese opera by Richard Strauss. Last week came the announcement that Herr Strauss would not let it travel alone, that he himself would bring it, see that it had proper accommodations, himself stand in the orchestra pit, interpret his own score to the flickering accompaniment of the bewigged splendors of an old Vienna...
...many of his most striking effects to Serge Soudeikine, who in designing the sets dared to do as much with wild, intoxicating color as Stravinsky did with his horns and strings rhd piano. Marion Talley (TIME, Mar. 1) was the Nightingale, never once seen. She stood in the orchestra pit with the players, right in front of Conductor Tullio Serafin, sang difficult music creditably, won curtain calls for herself alone, when it was all over, from an audience that found Stravinsky's cacophonies a bit unintelligible, Soudeikine's color a bit dazzling...
...been announced that he would try for a super-world's record of 13 ft. 6 in. He took one stride, two strides on the runway, then came a splintering crash, he lurched sideways, went sprawling into the landing pit. A board had broken under his foot. He arose, limped to a bench. A masseur got to work on his ankle, a carpenter repaired the runway. In a moment he was in front of the crowd again, pole in hand. A great shout went up. Effortlessly, majestically, he sailed over...
Upon close inspection of M. Dantchenko's synthesis of all the arts which can be crowded upon a stage and into an orchestra pit, it must be acknowledged that showman Gest's claim to have at length brought "singing actors" to the U. S. has been rather cruelly substantiated. So far the synthesized productions have been Lysistrata (TIME, Dec. 28, THE THEATRE), La Perichole and The Daughter of Madam Angot. On the basis of these sufficiently extensive samples, it may be definitely stated that, while the "singing actors" act with flawless and breath-taking ensemble perfection, they sing quite indifferently...