Word: tableaus
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Posters displayed in the Union and Yard dormitories show a marked change since the Smoker election three months ago, owing their "now look" to Student Council prohibition of risque tableaus...
...Stadium management makes no bones about truckling to the soloist trade. It hires soloists by the bushel, and ladies out Tableaus sums for them. As a result--and here is the rub--it must budget, and in so doing cheats the public with second and third-rate conductors. The substitution of some first-rank conductors like Rodzinski and Beecham for the interminable Golschmanns, Smalleness, and Von Hoogstrateus, (who obviously have only got their jobs through Curuegie Hall politics), would take the curse off a concert without soloists, and the public might begin to go in for Brahms and Becthoven...
...There is no period work, no costume effects, none of the pageantry and formal tableaus which the romantic novel used. When we read his books we feel that they are not daydreams, but the way life...