Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playwright Shakespeare gave Ludwig Lewisohn the idea. But not even Shakespeare could make much of a play out of Revamper Lewisohn's Shylock. For Lewisohn has romanticized Shylock's melodramatic figure, gentled him down into an unconvincing shadow of his former self. You learn that Antonio's pound of flesh was safe all the time. Shylock's "knife would not have gone very deep into the bosom of his adversary.'' He would only have nicked him, got him good & scared, then shown the Christian dog he knew as much as Portia about the quality of mercy...
William Edgar Borah. Greatest Insurgent of them all, the man whose shadow from the Capitol falls farthest across the land, is thickset, long-lipped, blue-eyed William Edgar Borah of Idaho. All the world knows that he is the Senate's supreme orator, that he rides his horse "Governor" alone in Rock Creek Park every morning, that on his head is a mane of shaggy dark hair. All the world does not know that he carries a pocket comb, that he licks his thumb and slicks down his eyebrows, that he scribbles his name on loose paper when listening...
...Shadow Over Bethlehem. In Bethlehem, Pa. last week all the plant managers and sales managers of Bethlehem Steel Corp. gathered for their annual conference. At the big dinner Chairman Charles Michael Schwab and President Eugene Gifford Grace spoke. Not discussed officially, but the subject of many a private argument, was a $36,000,000 suit the shadow of which lay athwart the Messrs. Schwab & Grace...
...scene designer is presented as the man who frames the play. Lee Simonson and Robert Edmond Jones represent the tendency to keep the settings in their true proportion to the play, while Norman-Bel Geddes is criticized for allowing the scenic design to over-shadow the actors...
...late Rudolph Valentino, as a source for this romantic costume melodrama about Aaron Burr. Unfortunately, that mood is not recaptured, probably not recapturable, for the inspiration of Monsieur Beaucaire, of its swagger and dandyism, was youth, and in Colonel Satan there is no youth and no reality except a shadow of the personal bad luck of the courageous man who wrote it. Author of a dozen engaging novels and several good plays of the American scene, Booth Tarkington, now almost totally blind, and having at 61 begun to outlive his own vogue, has executed his play with the impeccably literate...