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...wreath sent from Stratford-on-Avon to Manhattan was placed at the foot of Shakespeare's statue in Central Park last week by a bleak, shivering little knot of people who were movietoned by two uncouth persons in great coonskin coats. Miss Eva LeGallienne, leading upliftress of Manhattan drama, laid the wreath. Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, ill, was represented by a Mr. Strassburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Glory to William | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...creature crouched on top of him. Then at the climax a piercing yellow fills the stage as the storm comes up, symbolic of the Man's premonition of impending doom. Despite the complex, sometimes shrill chromatic combinations, Schönberg seemed subdued and civilized compared afterward with naked, uncouth Stravinsky. The stage production was directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The settings and costumes were designed by famed Robert Edmond Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Rite | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Americans hear and read so often of the French view, that the horde of tourists from the United States annually visiting that country are loud, ill-bred, uncouth and make a vulgar display of money, that one wonders why the "retort courteous" is not more often resorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Every day in Vienna men and women gather in groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Pencil Man | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Colony. In New Haven's Prospect Street, behind a high wall and adjoining the gardens of the learned community's Victorian moguls, is a monkey house. No uncouth student ever annoys the beasts for they are the wards of Robert Mearns Yerkes. He, who made a Harvard reputation studying the behavior of the dancing mouse,* has for the past five years been discreetly studying anthropoid intelligence for God, for country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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