Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...darkened theatre the blinding spotlight reveals a jazz band in Pierrot costumes. The curtain opens on gaily painted settings, and the lyric intensity of men and women who dance, love, suffer and die, to the casual irony of the bleating rhythm of saxophones...
...twinkling legs of Miss Dorothy Dilley are a triumphant contribution. The pink body of a girl spinning in a spotlight this sets a keynote which perhaps more than any other single element expresses the life and pitch of a richly exciting production
...Manhattan, on amateur night at the Chaloner Theatre, a young violinist stood playing in the spotlight, trying to please. Balcony buffoons listened, whispered, snickered, talked aloud, cat-called, bellowed out: "Send him a message !" Immediately, other buffoons released four pigeons. Straight for the shaft of spotlight flew the pigeons, down it, straight for the young violinist. One bird dashed into his face, stunned him partially, itself completely. The violinist picked up the prostrate bird, stumbled off the stage...
Once more he emerges into the spotlight. He begged the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to issue an injunction restraining Curtis D. Wilbur, in his capacity as Secretary of the Navy, from ordering or permitting the unfinished battleship Washington (one of the incompleted products left over after the Limitation of Armaments Conference) to be sunk at sea in bombing and target practice...
Hardly a week goes by without adding a new name to the galaxy sprung up to dazzle the world. One lad who gets his college degree at the age of fourteen sparkles for a moment in the public eye. Then the spotlight falls upon a ten-year old lightning calculator. For an instant a boy of twelve who in two months learns German and enough French to carry on conversation holds the stage. But his glory pales beside a youth who has just mastered his fifteenth language, and that Hebrew. Boy chess champions, "little Sampson" Otts, Jackle Coogans, Baby Peggys...