Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereas in the Twenties no attention was paid to many of the less-populous activities of the athletic scene, now the H.A.A. arranges games for scrub teams, for ineligibles, for House teams, for the C, D, and E participants in the world of sport...
...other modern dancers appeared on the scene, Martha Graham seemed less of a freak. Mary Wigman visited the U. S. for three successive seasons, left pupils in her wake. Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman are Denishawn products who have gone far on their own. Helen Becker, who calls herself Tamiris, dances with rare drive and energy, stomps her heels as does no one else. Harald Kreutzberg was hailed as a modern at first, partly because he was one of the early Wigman pupils. Now, despite his amazing virtuosity, purists consider him too theatrical, too obvious with his miming...
...cannot get rid of him. What Isabelle wants is to marry Laurence, an impeccable Virginia gentleman who has gone to Paris to ask her. Life with him, she is sure, would be peaceful, quiet and no trouble. Though she hates violence, she plans and carries out a violent scene at André de Venders' door which effectually frightens him out of the running. Unfortunately, Laurence is an unseen witness; she frightens him away too. To make the best of a bad bargain Isabelle marries Marc Salla-franque, an immensely rich but rather ridiculous industrialist...
...that buzzes around him, dedicated to "wealth, unchastity, and disobedience to all standards," she finds increasingly hard to bear. Marc has one vice, gambling. One bad evening at Le Touquet he gets drunk, starts to play. Because it is the only way to stop him Isabelle makes a ghastly scene which costs her a miscarriage. After a weary convalescence she decides to leave Marc and marry a young painter who is just her sort. But at the last minute she finds she cannot leave Marc after...
...picture tells a passionate love story without one word of love. Spencer Tracy, the tough guy who may be the best damned tuna fisherman on the coast, but certainly not the leader of men he thought he was, sheds his egotism and becomes completely lovable in the last scene...