Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star-Wagon (by Maxwell Anderson; Guthrie McClintic, producer). In the preface to his verse tragedy Winterset, Playwright Anderson announced his abiding belief in poetry for the stage, but prophesied that it would triumph only when "an age of reason will be followed by an age of faith in things unseen." The Star-Wagon makes at least as much claim: upon ''things unseen" as the ghostly Dutchmen for last season's High Tor, but observers, who found his last four plays marred by turgid dialog and prose which often bore only the typographical mask of verse, welcomed Playwright...
Biggest hate of all independent theatre owners is block-booking, or sale of blocks of films to exhibitors sight unseen. Enlisted in Allied's fight against block-selling are church groups, women's clubs and parent-teacher associations which believe that one result is the inclusion among the pictures booked of offensive films which the independent owner is compelled to take. Producers retort that this is untrue because block-booking contracts provide a 10 to 15% cancellation privilege. Great advantage of block-booking from the producers' point of view is that it gives them a constant, steady...
...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...
...Sight Unseen. A seat anywhere along the Coronation Procession route (see map), and there are 23 miles of grandstand seats, schedules the sitter to see the King & Queen bowling along in their golden Coach of State. After leaving Westminster Abbey the King will be wearing the Imperial State Crown. Other members of the Royal Family will be in open landaus or limousines as will foreign Crown Princes, Special Envoys, Ambassadors. Necessarily the Procession is all that the public can possibly be shown, for the Coronation must take place inside the Abbey. About 15,000 subjects of the King have...
...Paris a few years ago he completed one of black granite, 25 ft. high, 10 ft. thick at the base. When San Franciscans failed to produce enough money to move it sight unseen to California, he abandoned it in a French barn (where it is still held for unpaid storage) and returned to California with two smaller statues salvaged from stone chopped out from under the saint's arms...