Word: urbanities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Martinelli (as the prophet whose fanatical followers crown him a Dutch Rex in 16th Century Holland) put aside his tendency to blustery winds of song and wrung his effects from masterful restraint. Amid settings by Joseph Urban the "Ice Ballet" was realistically skated without ice, the castle was dynamited without dynamite, and the penultimate coronation scene achieved a splendor eclipsed only by such scenic orgies as the Metropolitan's Turandot...
...blushed when the other charge was brought. A witness reported overhearing a middle aged woman who was pressed against a young dastard say "You wouldn't dare insult me, sir, if Jack were only here," but he denied saying that a young woman had sued the Inter-urban for breach of promise. No doubt the result will be as usual, simply that good newspaper editors will attribute the degeneracy of the tunnel system to modern youth and the generally low plane of New York's busy life...
...House, Two years ago, Chairman Otto Kahn of the Opera Board, bought a plot on 57th Street, paid, it is said, $3,000,000 for it offered it to the Metropolitan for just what he paid. Last spring the site was seemingly approved: Architects Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban were appointed. The New house was promised for the season 1928-29. But the recent publication of Architect Urban's ideas by Editor Deems Taylor of Musical America brought the announcement that no site had been decided on, no plans approved. A committee of five trustees?R. Fulton Cutting, John...
...abdominal operation the scene was still sufficiently vernal and sufficiently inspirational to warrant odes and lyrics. And now, when there is nothing more disturbing than the sight of John Harvard in the hands of his tailor the sight is worthy not of mere editorials but of an urban Words-worth. While it is true that familiarity with some things breeds nothing but contempt, familiarity with this panorama breeds nothing but continued appreciation...
Around littered newspaper offices the news was interesting trade talk, but not startling. Journalists gossiped vividly over the report that Mr. Watson is having his Mirror office painted a gentle grey; has commissioned Joseph Urban, artist, architect, designer of scenery for the Follies, to paint three murals there...