Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sands arrives, last of them all, she is hysterical with happiness because she will at last be able to divorce her rich husband and marry Owen Macdonald. When her son comes in to say that John Sands has been shot, the play breaks into a wild, inharmonious and exciting rhythm; its draughty madness is terrifying, not by virtue of black paws or of guns offstage but because it conveys somehow the impression that God has gone away, that the world is being run now by the cheerful, sardonic, hideous Furies...
...Liberians are the greatest drummers in the world, according to Dr. Strong. They have an astonishing sense of rhythm, despite their rude culture. Speaking of the means of communication he said that the roads are very poor, and a tremendous length of time is taken in construction. Very frequently the roads are washed out, and the natives keep building in the same poor roadbeds...
...ridicule and rhythm: A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Hit the Deck, Manhattan Mary, Show Boat, Good News...
...drums in rhythm rolling...
...were "working up" the show. "Sometimes" we think a band number will be a knockout, it proves not to be: we shift things around, and cut parts out, until we finally manage to please the public. What all audiences want is pep: they like the soatimental stuff, but snappy rhythm is always more successful," he concluded...