Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Background of Revolution", Professor Haring, Harvard...
...play as it will be performed tonight consists of nine scenes. It was first composed in the late fifteenth century and is representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants are used to furnish an appropriate musical background for the action. The visual setting for the performance is the Germanic Museum reproduction of the "Golden Gate" of the cathedral of Freiburg, Germany...
...more remarkable, because there are few enough actresses of her attainments who would take such a part, and none that would do it with such a fine sense of the artistic unity of the whole, and such a nice realization that she was there purely for background. So superbly is she unobtrusive, so definitely part of the picture, that one forgets she is the same Lynn Fontanne who was the charming mistress in "Caprice", the flower girl in "Pygmalion", the artist's wife in "The Doctor's Dilemma", and Raina in "Arms...
...production of "Success", the presentation of the "Hessian Play" occupies a place of importance in the minds of Dramatic Club officials. No pains will be spared in achieving as perfect a performance as possible of the annual miracle play. In order to furnish an appropriately finished musical background for the miracle play the Dramatic Club announces that it will hold trials, today, in Holden Chapel, for singers who wish to participate...
...introduced in zoology a system of photographing skulls against a scale background, a method previously employed by anthropologists. He has a series of over four hundred scale pictures, taken with the assistance of the following museums: Berlin Museum, Hamburg Museum, Oslo Museum, Anatomy Museum at Amsterdam, Congo Museum at Tervueren. Lord Bothschild's museum at Tring, Major PowellCotton's Museum, Dr. Duckworth's collection, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology...