Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dawson of Penn," a frock-coated name, a faintly snobbish name, precisely the right name for the King's Physician in Ordinary ?so thought many a U. S. citizen last year when George V lay near Death and the sun never set on fresh bulletins signed "Dawson of Penn" (TIME...
...German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went home, spoke enthusiastically of its sweetness and its delicacy. Soon after four lutes were ordered for the Aguilar household and the four children, Ezequiel, Pepe, Paco and Elisa, were set to practising...
...combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged handsome scenes? marching grenadiers, palaces hung with cascades of stairs, a royal wedding in which flowers, lace and plumes seem blown into the set from pealing organ stops and braying horns. Neither this background nor the heavy-footed dialog is well adapted to the natural technique, essentially informal and Parisian, of M. Chevalier. Lubitsch too, who has in the past shown propensities for wit, seems at a disadvantage with his material. Best shot...
...When there were some visitors on the set he would say, 'Now Miss MacDonald, try to act for a change. Ach, but you are a dumb girl!' When I asked why he had engaged me for the role if I were so dumb he would say, 'Ach, I was dumb too, that day.' ... I wanted to see a finished print of The Love Parade. Every time I told Lubitsch he would tell me, 'Don't be so anxious, I've cut most of your scenes out. There's plenty of you lying around on the floor...
...full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected patron. As usual, Poet Lindsay wanU these poems to be chanted, hopes that none of them will be set to music. In his recent sojourn in Spokane Poet Lindsay evolved what he calls Poem Games, in which children dance and act out poems simultaneously chanted by a reciter. "I recommend it," says Poet Lindsay, "to parents tired of psycho-analysis." Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay is now a shout...