Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, where he maintains two of his three U. S. residences, Mr. Freeman is known as "Honorary Consul-General of Haiti." At the Bal Boheme in Washington last year he and his party enacted in tableau the discovery of Haiti, Mr. Free man impersonating Christopher Columbus in elaborate costume and shell-rimmed spectacles. He once invited Emma Gold man, radical propagandist, to lecture on Communism in his East Orange, N. J. home but the meeting was thwarted by police. In 1918 he converted his home into a hospital for wounded soldiers, cared for 1,000 in three years. Last year...
...Star" is an eleventh century German play, being one of the miracle plays from the Belsen Cycle. The main action deals with the trip of the three wise men guided by the star. In this play, unlike other miracle plays, the Virgin has no lines and appears only in tableau in the final scene...
...first tableau is called by Stravinsky " The Adoration of the Earth." The tableau is " The Sacrifice," for to primitive custom a virgin be sacrificed before new birth is possible. A pagan prelude introduces it and the young girls encircle, glorify the one. Ancestors are invoked who around her as she starts the propitiatory dance. Fearfully, madly she moves to crazy cross-grained rhythms, falls dead finally across a human pyre built hastily that her body may not touch the sacred soil...