Word: workbenches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants up the social...
...setting of "The Witches' Mountain" is a typical cattle ranch with cabins scattered here and there amid the rocks in the lonely desolation of the Andes. In "The Violins of Cremona", the scenery, which shows the interior of a violin shop with its workbench and tools, its partly completed violins, and its stock of well-seasoned wood for new creations, gives the picture of a miniature factory in old Italy. Both settings, which were designed by D. M. Oenslager '23 and are being constructed under his direction, have been almost completed...