Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate Kirstein founded the magazine Hound & Horn, kept it intellectually alive until 1934 when dancing became his dominant interest. With Edward Warburg, Kirstein then founded the School of American Ballet (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). Although he took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky on the tragic biography of her husband. No such swift-moving dramatic tale but a rich, fat history of the dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject but an enthusiastic scholar, equipped with information worthy of one twice his years.* If the pattern of Dance...
...childhood romance. Separated from his inamorata at the age of 8, Peter Ibbetson meets her again when he is a thriving young architect, she the Duchess of Towers. Nudged by the coincidence that both have the same dreams at night, they fall in love once more, again with tragic consequences when Peter Ibbetson goes to jail for murder. In this crisis their faculty of "dreaming true" is convenient. Divided by day, they spend their nights together, roaming the happy landscapes of illusion until both die, almost simultaneously...
...good friend Herbert Hoover outdoes him in bemoaning the evil days on which the land has fallen, in prophesying worse days to come unless citizens return to the tried & true ways of their fathers. Last fortnight he characteristically gloomed: "So much of what is being done to America is tragic...
...Christowe in Heroes and Assassins, Last week U. S. readers were offered a translation of a remarkable Dutch novel in which the emotional aspects of life within the organization were more vividly and completely set forth. A melodramatic, yet mellow and human book, Express to the East presents a tragic picture of modern flesh & blood conspirators whose intense lives are sacrificed for the cause they have made their own. The author of Express to the East is almost as mysterious as the organization of which he writes. Den Doolard, which means The Wanderer, is the pseudonym of C. Spoelstra...
...assume that wives who go abedding with their leading men may lose their husbands. This is all true and real but if it carries any particular message this corner did not get it. The play is capably constructed but if a drama is to be effectively serious and tragic it must have a vitality and a convincing sweep which "Gallery Gods" misses...