Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came up to Harvard on the subway, and as my friend and I stepped out upon the street level I felt an agreeable sense of strangeness and yet of familiarity. Directly opposite was the 'Coop,' lit up and glistening like a brand new backdrop. Next to it 'Harvard Trust' was sparkling in a sign of Kohinoors. 'This is Harvard Square,' I said to myself, remembering a zealously studied map. A surge of brisk, chill air cooled our faces. Light twinkled and beamed all around, as if in general welcome. People and autos and streetcars passed like noisy phantoms. So unreal...
...scenery, soft lights, dancing, singing, are presented. These purpose to drive home the atmosphere of the feature picture. Hero and heroine, in the film, come together at last in a canoe; in the "presentation," a baritone sings Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep with a lighthouse for backdrop. The film shows how a young society miss singes her wings; in the presentation, gauzy dancers flutter about an individual accoutred as Hell Fire. A reformed runagate finds happiness once more by his wife's side; a mixed chorus softly hums Make Me a Child Again, Just For Tonight...
...NERVOUS WRECK?Crockery, powder and pills farce echoing among canvas canyons of the woolly western backdrop...
...collective imagination of the audience. Drape the stage with silk curtains, put two chairs in front, twin beds in the rear, and page Mr. Avery Hopwood. Or (as in Dagmar, the sophisticated melodrama with Nazi mova), put three beach chairs on a yellow stage with a blue backdrop and call it the seashore. In Mary the 3rd, Rachel Crothers' humorous tragedy of incompatibility, the first two scenes are mounted only with draperies, a modicum of furniture, and off-stage music...
...expressionism is in the Theatre Guild's production of Ibsen's astonishing poetic drama, Peer Gynt. Full-grown people live in dwarfed houses; deserts are indicated by a suggestion of sand; fjords, oceans, mountains become a pile of cubist rocks and a blue line on the backdrop...