Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience: "I'm very glad to be back in the City of the Angels. You know, I married an angel." When he opened his mouth to sing, Whiz! went an egg hurled by a girl in the front row. Plop! a second egg spattered against the backdrop, dribbled down to the floor. Plop! Plop! Plop! Baritone Hutton lumbered off stage. As stage hands mopped up the eggs, police arrested one Jane Thomas. Next day she paid $5 fine per egg, declared: "I believe it was worth it." Mrs. Hutton remarked: "Wasn't that...
...into the world the dying years of the Nineteenth Century became an intensely human period peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater than his kindness to a misused epoch, for he blazed a trail along which other men might follow...
...Hapgood's verandah and put on a couple of plays. Susan Glaspell was there; so were George Cram ("Jig") Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young man of talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank, bushy-headed fellow with no money but "a trunkful of plays," contributed to the second bill...
However, I doubt if I could accomplish it even with the aid of mirrors, invisible wires, and a velvet backdrop...
...catalog's scheme is ingenious. Two introductory poems set the stage, the scene: "... a shabby backdrop of bright stars: one of the small interstices of time." Then the itemized catalogs begin. First, The Costumes ("Item: a pair of infant's socks two inches long . . . Item: long trousers . . . Item: a tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine...