Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dining well. That art reached its apogee a century ago in France. The great Careme, chef successively to the courts of Russia, Austria and Britain, and to the Rothschilds, probably then achieved in his sauces the ultimate refinement of la haute cuisine ("high cookery"?superb food). "I would eat my own father with sauces such as these," ex- claimed the celebrated glutton Grimod de la Reyniere...
...Lady from the Sea" is an education. It is a superb example of the ability of a playwright to shatter his play into two score small scenes, almost all dialogues, without breaking the emotional thread. From the first rise of the curtain, which reveals color disharmony rampant, to the last discordant blast of the steamer's whistle which closes the play, there is a jangling, an oppressive sultriness which distinguishes the play...
...While the matter waited, there waited also for inspection the superb Kaiserliche-Königliche Hofburg (Imperial and Royal Palace), the onetime residence of Franz-Josef, and all the now decadent chateaux and pleasure resorts of the former Austro-Hungarian nobility. The night sparkle of Vienna is gone but its substantial daylight glories remain...
Digges, Margalo Gillmore, Edward Robinson. Wrote the critics: "Herr Werfel did well to discard the technique of shadowy symbolism employed in the Goat Song. The audience responded only halfheartedly to a superb production...
...difficult role, Helen Menken brings an unfailing art, frequently of superb power. Her hands alone express the quintessence of anguish. Basil Rathbone, the man married to the form of a woman, supports her with a smoothly finished, under-standing performance, as does Arthur Wontner whose work in the second act is one of the finest things the season has discovered...