Word: zenobia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were ever sensitive to the appeal of the old and the unknown about them. There are moving shots of Oriental luxury and squalor as seen in Bagdad; then, as we penetrate deeper, there are wild, frenzied dances of the nomadic tribesmen; the ruined palace of the mighty Queen Zenobia; gaunt, starving Mongolians. The picture ends with a glimpse of voluptuous Indo-China, splendid brown bodies gliding across the views...
...high spots of the show are reached in the two big ballet scenes. The Princess Zenobia ballet interlude is about the funniest thing this playgoer has ever seen. Starting with a majestic and dramatic emulation of a heavy dance-drama it rises to a genuine pitch of satirical excellence. "The Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" ballet gives Mr. Bolger fine opportunity to demonstrate his terpsichorean genius and ends up in a screamingly funny bit of farce. This Bolger fellow hasn't a peer in soft-shoe dancing...
...claims of Ethan's sickly wife, become instead dependent on her attentions for the rest of their lives, is presented relentlessly, a bitter frieze of figures on a frozen ground. On stage, Ethan Frome is not quite so painful. The Davises have had some mercy on the wife Zenobia, probably because, as Miss Wharton originally wrote it. the part would not have fitted the compassionate stage manner of Pauline Lord. This reorientation of Zenobia required a general softening up of the other characters. Actor Massey, a Canadian who knows how to wear a sheepskin coat as if he realized...
...like water. Judge Tellander also gave a prize to a Country Gas Station by Harry D. Jones of Des Moines, which showed pumps leaning crazily on a steep hill. Secretary Alice McKee Gumming of the Iowa Art Guild damned this as a caricature. It was all most painful to Zenobia Ness, instructor in the home economics department of the State College at Ames and supervisor of the Fair's Art Salon. Tactfully taking no sides, she could not help admitting: "It certainly was a surprise...
...than Mrs. Krapp could stand. Flinging gentility to the winds, she filed suit for $10,000 against Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Roscoe, Mrs. English and the eight other Sorosis members, charging defamation of character. "I've been a good Christian and a good woman all my life," cried Mrs. Zenobia Krapp. "I never wrote those letters...