Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater joy can fill a producer's heart than the knowledge that the long finger of shame is being pointed at his play. Overnight a risque performance which has been quite unnoticed can spring into popularity. The New York World has just presented Mr. Brady with some front page advertising for his latest production, "A Good Bad Woman," and Mr. Brady has played up to the lead of the World very nicely. He declared himself in perfect concurrence with its desire for clean plays, and offered to remove his production from the boards--as soon as six or seven other...
...Admiral was selected in 1918 to fulfill the baneful task of handing over the stricken Empire's fleet to the enemy. To men whose whole lives had been spent in the Navy, this meant great shame and dishonor. Most of the high naval officers sadly put their clothes away with moth balls and tried to forget their humiliation. Not so Horthy. Morning, noon and night, breakfast and dinner found him bedecked as an admiral. If he went shooting in the Royal Forest near Gödöllö, his uniform was with him; he took it off when...
...shame that they can't let me shuffle along in my own way for a few years more. As you know, from the standpoint of the church in convicting me for heresy they are sending me to Hell...
Alack, and fie for shame. . . . and others of the warped lyrics of Ophelia-the Ophelia whom the Hamlet of John Barrymore demented. Her present performance gives pledge of a considerable ability in light opera if presented without so many physical restrictions. Her colleagues were moderately well equipped for other assignments. Particularly pleasant was Edgar Stehli's interpretation of the rotund Bunthorne...
NARCISSUS, AN ANATOMY OF CLOTHES-Gerald Heard-Dutton ($1). Evolution raised man from the red earth naked. He looked at himself and knew shame; he felt the wind, was cold. Therefore he stole from the beasts their striped or tawny elegance, he scooped the rock and lived within it. Clothing and architecture developed together like concentric cortices of a springing rod. Architecture is the outer whorl; its fashions make their impress on clothes, the inner. Tailors snip and snip, masons slap on their lime; steeples and toppers affront the sky, eaves overhang, tails droop decorously down. Ingeniously...