Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international touch lent by the presence of the cadets and officers of the cruiser "Karlsruhe" promises to make the annual Military and Naval Science Ball tonight at the Hotel Continental a colorful and distinguished event. Jackie Marshard and his orchestra will supply the music in the modernistic ballroom. The proceeds of the affair to which all University members are invited, will go to Phillips Brooks House...
Only eight hundred of the asked to the $50,000 Stanhope held in their home so it will intimate touch. Crowds fill the streets, door-checkers and bouncers abound for the purpose of keeping it exclusive; orchids and orchestras line the balcony; and the debutante and her parents, arrayed by Mr. Patou, greet some dismal but socially presentable friends. Beneath all this gay exterior a tragedy is taking place. The young musician, not realizing what he has done to the debutante, leaves her to marry the socialite, Jimmy Weaver, the third. Quite a noble conception...
...simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
...Danforth adds one more Gilbert-&-Sullivan characterization to his long list with the part of the stately Lord Chancellor. Iolanthe is the fifth Gilbert-&-Sullivan revival by S. M. Chartock's capable company. The Chocolate Soldier. A charming, melodious newcomer named Bernice Claire has just the right, light touch when she bids the comic craven, Bummerli, "Come, come, naught can efface you" in Strauss's appealing "Hero" song. The hero, who would rather eat candy than fight, is alternately Donald Brian or Charles Purcell, the revival's producers...
...department, with a first-rate mind.'' Says Critic Craven of this Missouri artist: "To the conservatives he is a Red; to the radicals he is a Chauvinist. His art is too specifically real, too deeply impregnated with what I shall risk calling the Collective American Spirit to touch the purists, Methodists and doctrinaries. . . . Benton's art, apparently, is a direct and unblushing representation of American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval. One of the few art writers of today to uphold George Grey Barnard and his vast vaporings in stone...