Word: tenementation
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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...
...Centuries. On the stage of a tiny Greenwich village theatre are set a series of platforms to represent the rooms of a smelly tenement. Through these rooms wanders the disjointed, often dismembered, saga of the sorrows of a Jewish immigrant family. Poverty, graft, prostitution, suicide are a few of the woes that befall. The play is given by The New Playwrights, all of whose theatricals are in the most modern manner. The New Playwrights do not cater to the general public; nor, in general, the public to The New Playwrights...
...Birth control," M. Russell went on to say, "is not only a desirable institution, but also an economical necessity, and especially is it needed in the crowded tenement districts. In China the rapid birth rate is offset by pestilence and famine, but here in America where there is no immediate danger of such conditions, there ought to be some means of enabling a man and woman to enjoy the companionship of married life without the fear of the expenses that children would cause...