Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extricate himself from an embarrassing situation when his wife and a detective raid his hideaway. Room of Dreams. This play had a complicated birth-written by Daniel Coxe from a translation by James L. A. Burrell and Anne Sprague MacDonald of the original Viennese of Ernest Raoul Weiss. But polyglot parentage cannot be entirely responsible for the nonsensical finished product which ushered in the New York Theatre Assembly's season. It seems that Lucien, unable to win Adrienne-his best friend's wife-has his rooms decorated precisely like the intimate chambers of his beloved. This happy eccentricity...
Vastly different was the McEwans' slow tango. Executed by Scots, it is a French adaptation from the Argentine and is, according to its creator, "a ver-r-r-a d-r-r-r-aggy dance." Because of its polyglot source it was named The International Tango. Lazy in tempo?32 bars to the minute?its slowness is compensated by twists and spins...
...polyglot nature of the Congress seemed to annoy many of the U. S. delegates. They confessed they were disappointed by the confusion of what went on. They had no one leader, no formal place in the Congress program. With their nicknacks and souvenirs some of them cleared out of Carthage and Tunis until the grand summation of the whole Eucharistic Congress, the solemn benediction of the Blessed Sacrament before 10,000 witnesses (including infidels). Those who had poor places will have opportunity to see and hear the whole thing again. So too many a stay-at-home U. S. Catholic...
...moving around this insignificant figure in the foreground, getting across the tremendous implications involved in the in justice of Grischa's imminent fate, he might have made a masterpiece. Instead he allowed the anecdote to remain personal. The Case of Sergeant Grischa further suffers from such imperfections as polyglot accents among the cast; the fre quent use of miniatures and fake outdoor sets, particularly in the earlier sequences; the absurd theatricality of little, linking scenes that could with no more trouble have been made natural and valid; and the miscasting of Betty Compson who, with her worn, heavily cosmetized prettiness...