Word: rapt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porgy. While the Theatre Guild's most highly paid employes* were weaving spells for gratified Chicago audiences and the first road company? was about to open in Hanover, N. H., to a rapt gathering of Dartmouth undergraduates, the Guild raised its Manhattan curtain on a troupe of Negroes. Meeting the ceaseless mutter that the Guild worships at the shrine of foreign playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage...
...scene and a dented derby in another he appeared in his usual evening clothes; and chattered between the acts. He spoke variously of Abraham Lincoln, Marie Antoinette, Otto Kahn (in the fifth row) ; his audience, his premiere danseuse, and his face. To all this the witnesses listened rapt; to his show they were only slightly less attentive...
...Rotarians, who voyaged on an excursion to Ostend, Belgium, for the Rotary International convention (TIME, June 6), listened with rapt attention to King Albert of Belgium last week. His Majesty, himself a Rotarian, praised the U. S. delegates "whose crossing of the Atlantic-the Atlantic which your fellow countryman, Captain Lindbergh, crossed alone in some 30 hours-is indeed an important event. It proves the strength of Rotarian feeling and co-operative spirit...
...chief guests were Edward Lasker, chess wizard,* and a swarthy gentleman whom he had found in Manhattan, a gentleman with a queer eye and rapt manner, Ascander Khaldah Bey of Egypt. Mr. Khaldah performed some feats for Mr. Rosenwald and his guests that made them not only curious but distinctly uneasy...
...their fare would be cut in half and they would get no Sunday afternoon programs. They bestirred themselves. At the opening concert every seat was taken and a hundred extra ones tucked here and there for those who would not be turned away. They relaxed then those symphonophiles, gave rapt attention to Rimsky-Korsakoff, Thomas, Mozart, Pierne, Delibes, Wagner, capably read by Conductor Henri Verbrugghen...