Word: tableaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when...
...courtesan who ruled an empire, held it less dear than her daughter, was accorded the honor of opening the Civic Repertory Theatre season. A more tense, colorful-play could hardly have been selected. Wisely, Eva Le Gallienne guards against arousing suspicion that her theatre is "arty." Though the five tableaux call for much changing about of scenery, few in the audience left their seats after the curtains, because Miss Le Gallienne had provided a Russian Gypsy orchestra that can strum ten minutes into nothing...
Dancing will begin immediately after a program of specialty acts and tableaux, which it is expected will be over by 11 o'clock. The music will be furnished by Wittstein's orchestra from New Haven...
...Elaborate Tableaux...
...features of this play distinguish it from those of preceding years. The first part consists of a debate between the prophets and a high priest concerning the possibilities of a virgin birth. There are several elaborate tableaux, lighted, and accompanied by music, with some chants sung in Latin...