Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campus flapper inspired by John Held Jr.'s caricatures?of such varied and original material did Ruth Page create the Manhattan program. Particularly interesting were the Balinese impressions gathered from the recent visit there;* a dance called Sun-Worshippers showing a beach group in bathing suits against a backdrop of skyscrapers; blues done in crazy, geometric design...
Before he could reach Paris, Mr. Kellogg had to go to Havre. He stood on the deck, last week, as the ship slipped into the narrow harbor. From where he stood, he could see, at the right, the houses of Havre which seem flat like the backdrop of a theatre. He could also see, to the East, the sun. He could not see an object upon which the sun's rays were playing...
Bubbling with a champagne sparkle of mellower, sweeter, vintage is the tale of a Syrian from the sidewalks of New York,†† who went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert...
...sleeps, falls in love with Madame Chauchat, talks to his cousin Joachim, he reproduces in miniature man living in a community of death. The other dwellers on the magic mountain, likewise specializations of humanity in the large, significant and tiny, make irritable and oblivious motions in front of the backdrop of disaster...
...curtain rises. Two musicians?the first violin and the cellist?are seated, chatting. Conductor Stokowski strolls vaguely in from the wings. He bows. Puzzled applause from the audience?murmurs of "But good heavens, Victoria, where is the orchestra? . . . Down behind that backdrop? . . . I think it is simply too quaint. . . ." That no orchestra lurks behind the backdrop is clearly demonstrated when Mr. Stokowski raises his baton and the scrannel strains of the violin and cello tremble, quite unsupported, in the hostile air. . . . Now another musician comes in. He carries a horn and a handkerchief and flops down in the first convenient...