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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maya is a series of nine intimate scenes in the life of a waterfront whore. These scenes, beautifully played by Aline MacMahon, allow the audience to appreciate the profound, wholesome and unfamiliar fact that Maya, for every man and for a moment, appears as the incarnation of his desires, that the face of this prostitute glitters, in the cracked mirror of each customer's longing, as the image of an ideal. This tenuous truth does not make for dramatic continuity; the play Maya stretches it against a background of homely and revelatory incidents in the life of its heroine...
Yachting, swimming, golf, tennis, dancing, horse-racing, roulette are sports familiar to the U. S. Unfamiliar is Havana's jai-alai (pronounced "high-a-ligh"), or Spanish handball, played in huge public frontones (courts) by native and imported professionals...
...Paris seven paupers froze to death in the streets. Some, it was told, had refused to accept warmth and shelter for winch they could not pay. Misjudging their powers of resistance to the unfamiliar cold,* they had stumbled on through the snow -too long...
...believe that alone are the chosen vessels in which reposes the spirit of Lenin - in Russia Lenin is, in sober truth, a God. In his name Trotsky will certainly plot and and perhaps conquer. After all "Lenin & Trotsky" is a couplet revered by millions to whom "Lenin & Stalin" rings unfamiliar, hollow strange...
Habitual listeners to the Philadelphia Orchestra, present at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, for its first concert there this season, were shocked though not surprised to see, standing upon the conductor's stand, the unfamiliar figure of Fritz Reiner, leader of the Cincinnati Symphony. Though aware that famed Leopold Stokowski was taking a year's leave of absence, they had half expected to see the sharp and mobile curlicue of his conjuror's face, to be entertained by the hunch-ings and bendings of his thin black back, to listen to the superb and golden music which...