Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter Woolf's buoyant masculinity and swordplay carry the show through a somehow familiar tavern scene. After that "The Red Robe" could run along on the magnificent staging of its seventeenth century interiors,s in which Watson Barratt has secured blendings of scenery and costume second only to those in Ames' "Merchant of Venice". But by this time Violet Carlson, yellow-haired and bandy-legged, has started being the only soubrette with a baby voice who was ever funny, and Barnett Parker and Barry Lupino have burlesqued all Flanders hip boots and picture hats out of sight...
...Significance. Audacious as it is masterly, the conception of a young hero-heroine living richly century after century is a feat of imaginative intelligence. In unskilled hands the bold conception might well fall short of artistic execution, but Mrs. Woolf is a craftsman of great skill. The mechanics of sex-transformation and passage of time are deftly, almost blandly, subordinated to the phenomenon of one and the same temperament reacting to the characteristics of disparate ages. Orlando is influenced by each new mode, but vivid memories give him (her) a dispassionate perspective. The sweep of generations offers every opportunity...
...Author. More interested in mono type and printer's ink than vacuum-cleaners and Patou models, Virginia Woolf ? and her husband ? set up a small hand press in 1912, and printed limited editions of choice books, her own among them. Since then, the Hogarth Press has grown, through success, to a full-fledged publishing house with appropriate offices near the British Museum...
Rather more "literary" than the commercialized publisher and critic of the U. S., Mr. and Mrs. Woolf belong to a group of individualists who still take art seriously: Orient-student Arthur Waley (TIME, Aug. 27), Economist John Maynard Keynes, Biographer Lytton Strachey, esoteric Poet Osbert Sitwell, unique Author E. M. Forster. Many of these were at Cambridge together, have since formed the "Bloomsbury group," intermarrying, settling in adjacent houses, exciting themselves in common interests. Virginia Woolf is daughter to the Cambridge tutor and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen, sister-in-law to art critic Clive Bell, wife to Leonard Woolf, publisher...
...President was drawn from life last week, for the third time, by Artist Samuel Johnson Woolf, of TIME the Newsmagazine...