Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Noah and family were constructing their ark last week, a crew of ballet dancers in goggles and aprons was busy on a Boston stage, pounding together a Victorian-styled spaceship for a nostalgic trip to the moon. The occasion: the U.S. premiere of Jacques Offenbach's minor operetta Voyage to the Moon, based on Jules Verne's yarn. First performed in Paris in 1875, Offenbach's Voyage caused a momentary sensation among premature space bugs, then disappeared from the repertory and has rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera...
...women in the nation's early days used powdered chalk and fresh-cut beet juice for beauty, but the onset of the Victorian age made "paint and powder" the hallmark of the dance-hall girl or the woman of the street. The Gibson girl, created by Artist Charles Dana Gibson, was the modest and aloof dream girl of U.S. males in the early years of the century. It was not until World War I that makeup crawled back to respectability, and not until the Roaring Twenties that it dared to flaunt its painted face-under a permanent wave, invented...
...persuading his sources-black and white alike-that he was neither a crusader nor a critic, spent three days in Summerton, S.C. convincing the head of the Citizens' Council that he just wanted to get the Council's side of the story. Back in his nine-room Victorian house in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Martin took another four months to write his series. He ground no personal ax, pleaded no man's cause, contented himself with a dispassionate report entitled: The Deep South Says "Never...
...slow final scene and perhaps an overly chilly handling of the husband's part are minor inconsistencies in what is otherwise a splended production. Although the Charles Street version of La Ronde is not recommended for the Victorian temperament, it provides an enjoyable evening of Spring theater. If sex is not always beautiful it can at least...
...past three years, perhaps even longer, the Winthrop House Music Society has played the dramatic field at Harvard cautiously, sticking closely to tired-and-true Gilbert and Sullivan productions. Last night, however, the Victorian wonder boys got the sack as the Winthrop House Music Society staged a successful and entertaining performance of Of Thee I Sing...