Word: proscenium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bryan was its herald, mining and cattle men splashed with their fortunes into Denver. Notable was vulgar Senator Horace Arthur Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor who built the pretentious Tabor Grand Opera House, birthplace of Denver's culture, now the Tabor Grand, a cinemansion. Of Shakespeare's picture on the proscenium, Tabor said, "What the hell did he ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three...
...will be faced by Muralist Ezra Winter's 60-ft. canvas showing the Fountain of Youth planted by God on a mountaintop, ringed by chasms. This canvas will follow the sweep of a huge marble and bronze stairway. In the auditorium a gigantic sunburst will explode above the proscenium arch. Structural glass will be pocked with mosaics of cork, murals of linoleum. The wall coverings will be pigskin. Tube aluminum furniture will be upholstered in hairhide. There will be 16-sided lounging rooms with copper ceilings...
...camels from National Zoological Park. After two postponements Aïda was performed in Washington by a troupe including Soprano Leonora Corona, Baritone Pasquale Amato and members of the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera. The animals had dwindled to eight riding horses, prancing nervously at the sides of the proscenium. The same company will be heard in Baltimore's Oriole Park July 10, Atlantic City's Steel Pier July 17, Chicago's Soldier Field July 31 and ten days thereafter...
...wrote it. Much of Stravinsky's Oedipus, despite its rigid pattern, is powerful dramatic music, worthy of translation. So, for Philadelphians, last week Stokowski proceeded to translate it, using modernistic idioms: The speaker (Negro Wayland Rudd; recalled the story in English through a loud speaker attached to the proscenium arch. On a platform above the singers, puppets 15 feet tall represented the Greek protagonists, themselves nothing but puppets manipulated by the gods...
...Navy, in signal flags over the proscenium of the National Geographic Society's auditorium: "Yoke, William, X-ray." (Translation: "Well done...