Word: tenementation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Street Scene", by Elmer Rice, will undoubtedly be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best American play of the year. Like "Journey's End" it employs but one set--the brown stone front of a West Side tenement--and what plot it has is incidential to its theme of the tragic force of a sordid environment in the lives of a small group of human beings. It is distinguished, incidently, by the most terrifying murder one may find on any stage of the Rialto. The third hardest play to get tickets for is the Theatre Guild's production of "Caprice...
Work on the razing of two wooden tenement houses in the block between De Wolfe and Plympton Streets is now under way, it was announced yesterday by A. L. Endicott '94, comptroller of the University. One of these houses is already nearly demolished and the wrecking crew yesterday began work on the other...
Last week Composer Deems Taylor confirmed the rumor (TIME, Feb. 25) that his new, Metropolitan-commissioned opera would be based on Street Scene, a play by Elmer Rice, now successful on Broadway. Street Scene is about tenement life...
...must have caused me grief (the notice was headed 'Printed Matter' and contained the statements that my contribution to the art of beautiful letters was only a record of "what the Well Dressed Man will--write") and considering also that the Advocate's offices immediately adjoin my own tenement and that nightly the uproar occasioned by their service of the muse (consisting mostly of sounds of breaking glass and a song about a certain William, a nautical man) ascend to interrupt my musings upon the good, the beautiful and the true, considering, as I say, these prejudical circumstances, it might...
...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...