Word: vellum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good books go through their grand editions only to end their existence on poor stalls in poorer covers. Good plays suffer a somewhat similar fate. They too have the grand vellum of Broadway about them for a time until, eclipsed by newer rivals, they are forced to the cheap paper covers of the world of stock. Such a play is "Outward Bound". Other attempts at histrionic ethics and metaphysics have sent Sutton Vane's play into the limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell...
...casual visitor from Wichita or Waltham looks with ill concealed dismay upon the luxurious peace of the Farnsworth Room. To think that mere students should enjoy such cushioned learning fills his heart with envy at the mightiness of things. Jaundiced he turns from the rows of glittering vellum and retreats to the shadows of the marble colonnade...
Stout is taking a course in research work under Mr. G. P. Winship '93, Librarian of the Widener Collection, and in perusing an original edition of Elizabethan plays recently, he noticed that the binding was cardboard on the inside and vellum on the outside. Examining the vellum, he saw that it was an old musical score with French-Latin words written in. He took it to Mr. Winshop, who allowed him to remove the binding after paying for another...
...size of the vellum is that of a good-sized book. The music is written in the form of plainsong on a staff of four instead of five lines, and the tones are designated by numae, or small homogeneous dots, in place of the figures with tails used in present notation. There is no division into bars and no attempt at time. It was the custom of the monks to chant to the limit of their powers and then pause to rest themselves and their hearers...
...reality Elinor Wylie's work would be robust were it only in consideration of her technical perfection. I like to think of her now in an old Connecticut house, surrounded by the demands of several children, yet creating quite calmly and steadily a manuscript fit to be traced upon vellum and illuminated by monks in cloisters, something rich, rare and only very gently indecorous...