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There is also that great British theatrical institution, the pit. You stand in line at the door for a length of time in a length of queue depending upon the success of the play???then the whistle Wows and you all crowd in and try to grab the nearest available seat to the barrier that cages the pit-devotees away from the swells in the stalls. Thus, if you don't get your eye gouged out in the rush, you obtain what would be in I New York a $2.75 orchestra seat for a good deal less. The pit need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In London | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...moment of the play???by Maurice Hewlett's Quatrocentisteria, out of a legend of Botticelli?is when the beautiful Simonetta, offering to pose for the painter, comes to his studio, clad only in a cloak. Flinging the cloak from her she reveals herself to him, clothed only in a high-backed chair. Forgetting his love for her in his artistic enthusiasm for her beauty, Botticelli leaps to the canvas and starts violently sketching. It appears, however, that as a matter of fact Simonetta is not concerned so much with passing her beauty on to posterity. Her wants are far more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

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