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Word: portrayal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose at the silly lies told about "Bernard," while he practically choked at the slanders circulated-often by Bernard himself-about the Shaw clan. The Shaws, after all, he says, can be traced all the way back to 12th-Century Scotland, and it was perfectly outrageous for Bernard to portray them as shabby-genteel failures, and to label his own pa a hopeless and horrible drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Shaw v. Shaw | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Freedley's play, his first, deals with New York life; and in order to portray the diversities of the great metropolis, the young playwright has adopted some 30 scenes, occurring in different parts of New York during the course of a crowded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Will Produce Latest Play December 14 to 16 | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

Hunt Hamill '40, undertakes the leading male role, of Ronnie, a happy-go-lucky member of cafe society. Playing opposite him is Miss Reta Hurley, a graduate of the Bishop Lee School, who will portray a New York glamor girl. Leonard Kent '43, as the stolid and dependable Henry, Guy Clements '40, and Miss Agnes Love, Radcliffe '34, fill the remaining important parts. Henry Urrows '38 directs the Dramatic Club's latest production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Will Produce Latest Play December 14 to 16 | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

With New York as its theme, the play has many modernistic and experimental effects to portray aspects of urban life. Impressionistic scenery and odd lighting effects will dominate the production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club to Give 'Too Late to Laugh' Here Soon | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

...main tenet of "Futurism" is that all connotations of an idea or object must be presented with that object in a work of art. Spatial and temporal continuity is entirely neglected by the Futurist. If, for example, he wishes to portray a sick person, he will place in his painting the images and distorted ideas which pass through the mind of an individual who is ill; Fear will be hovering above the person's head and the bed upon which he is resting might be transformed into the automobile he was driving when an accident occurred. All elements of natural...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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