Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mime Enters is only chilled by what is commonly known as "interpretive dancing." One thing that prompted her to write about her own work was the feeling that "this Pure Dance had been getting away with esthetic murder long enough." But the strongest impulse to express herself otherwise than in painting and pantomime came after she saw the outbreak of the Spanish revolution last year. Back in the U. S. she found herself writing magazine articles, speaking on the radio "as a person about persons," finally eager to speak, as a person, about herself...
...Artistic excellence and box-office success are not always the same thing, even to Hollywood. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures has a committee on exceptional photoplays that annually picks ten U. S. pictures for their artistic merit. Top choice for 1937 was creepy, melodramatic Night Must Fall. Others, in order: The Life of Emile Zola, Black Legion, Camille, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Good Earth, They Won't Forget, Captains Courageous, A Star Is Born, Stage Door...
...vintage years are always the same. When he is accused of plagiarizing French wine names he claims indignantly that Burgundy is as much a descriptive word as whiskey. He also enjoys pointing out that when the disease Phylloxera virtually wiped out European vineyards between 1870 and 1880, the only thing that saved them was grafting European grape vines on the root stock of the wild vine of California...
Discouragement, delay, the difficulties of learning English, a sea voyage enlivened by the sight of pirates did not cool Mother Duchesne's ardor for civilizing the "savages" of the New World. The first thing she did when she stepped ashore was kiss the boggy soil of Louisiana. It took her and her four colleagues 40 days to ascend the river to St. Louis. The nuns were placed aft on the steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half...
...Vicki Baum insists that she has jumped on no Bali band wagon. As long ago as 1916, her foreword says, photographs of the island so fascinated her that they became her favorite smelling salts against "war, revolution, inflation. , . . ." Nineteen years later a sight of the real thing outdid her dreams. And then an old Dutch colonizer died and left her a trunkful of manuscripts, among them an "interminable" novel built around the final conquest of Bali by the Dutch in 1904-06. Her long novel is "a free paraphrase" of this lengthy legacy...