Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The plot is farcically fantastic. A Philadelphia nightclub dancer (Polly Walters) reaches Princeton, almost naked in her flight from the scene of a murder. She baby-talks four undergraduates who occupy one dormitory entry into hiding her in their rooms until the police hunt blows over. One of the boys...
The high point of the Christmas Scribner's is a critique on Thorstein Veblen by Ernest Sutherland Bates. Mr. Bates has been charmed away from the truth, one feels, by a romantic sympathy for the immigrant Scandinavian, for his racial humiliation by the native Americans of Minnesota and Wisconsin. This...
"A person devoid of ability cannot be taught to act. There must be some talent present, and the only way to bring it out, and to perfect it, is to get experience; such, for example, as that offered in school and college dramatics. I know that the first time that...
If he had been hissed it probably would have been no great surprise to Arnold Schönberg who in his 59 years has become accustomed to ridicule and discouragement. From the beginning his way has been hard. His father died when he was 16 and he had to leave...
Fifi Vollard would not then, as he does not now, raise a finger to attract a customer or sell a canvas but occasionally he moved quickly. As soon as Cézanne died Fifi hopped a train for Aix, bought the entire contents of Cézanne's studio...