Word: purist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tower of pastry with its 52 candles awaiting President Roosevelt last week was not his first crustularian masterpiece. The Roosevelt Inaugural Cake weighed 110 Ib. and was the product of Mme Blanche (Blanche LeRallec), famed cake baker to all U. S. Presidents since the first Roosevelt. A crustularian purist. Mme Blanche disdains such devices as building her mammoth cakes around steel or wooden scaffolding. She has built self-supporting cakes weighing over 600 Ib. which were entirely edible from base to candy Cupid, with the exception of a few concealed electric light wires. She works from blue prints, bakes...
...province, for it is in his slang that ordinary man looses the chains which bind him and stands forth a naked personality. And the Vagabond deals with the hearts of men from which the curtain of convention has been drawn aside. Slang and swearing, as they appear to a purist, should be crystallized emotional expressions. Regarded as such, the Vagabond can only join with his distinguished colleague and lament the passing of the giant oaths...
...setting executed by Norman Bel Geddes. In Manhattan last week he turned his attention to staging and directing another revival, Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Geddes production lops a good-sized chunk off the original script, a move which will offend none but the most iconoclastic purist. Director Geddes has also provided an adequate cast. Raymond Massey, a cadaverous young man who brings from London fame as an actor-director-manager (The Man in Possession, Topaze, Grand Hotel) simultaneously makes his U. S. and Shakespearean debut in the title role. Stout Colin Keith-Johnston (Journey...
...invited her to give the opening program at the Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress in Washington last week. Mrs. Coolidge's Chamber Music programs are usually above reproach. But the Lewisohn dancers (who still retain the name of "the Neighborhood Playhouse") offended many a purist with their miming of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation...