Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale Record and devised original syncopation. At the end of his freshman year he left college, subsequently studied at the Yale art school and Manhattan's Art Students League for a period of a month apiece. These months he considers wasted. He gathered jazz orchestras which played in a New Haven grill and Manhattan's Rendezvous. He began to decorate night clubs as well as play in them, and gradually abandoned the tonal for the graphic art. He painted ornamental screens full of bearded Russians of red-coated huntsmen with filigrees of bugles and hounds...
...theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly how this "lavish production will be Belasco's swan song." So a typical Belasco audience, in limousines, came to see Lenore Ulric in a play which contained devils, scenes of passionate affection and a huge machine for producing evil on the earth...
...little grain of goodness that remains in mortals, however debased they may be grown. The devil's machine, a failure, tottered and crumpled all over the stage and Janos, the forester, escaped through it, back to his wife who was waiting dinner for him. Interesting and incredible, the play was chiefly remarkable for the stage devices it contained; stage devices, since the invention of the cinema, are less potent than they used to be to evoke illusions and it was in displaying his unique skill in their construction that Producer Belasco really sang his swan song...
Wings Over Europe. "Up and atom," the scientists cry and in this play with its vaguely beautiful title Poet Robert Nichols and Stage-technician Maurice Browne have imagined a youthful researcher, the nephew of a Prime Minister, to have discovered how to control the tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins. Perhaps the most encouraging trait of humanity is the ingenuity which it exhibits in making such discoveries; and perhaps the most discouraging trait in humanity is the lack of ingenuity which it exhibits in making use of them. The young atomist, accordingly, tells the British Cabinet about...
...entire world at a moment's notice. After two acts of argument, this is the necessity with which he is faced, and the Cabinet sits, engaged in nervous little pastimes, waiting for doom, while a clock ticks and the audience remembers happily that it is all a play. Then one member of the Cabinet gets the bright idea of murdering the scientist...