Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intelligence of American audiences today. Just as there are shows which aim to be suggestive, there are audiences which go to the theatre only for filth. Honest dramatic effort is twisted by these perverted minds into the foulest shapes. The play itself is just as sincere an attempt to depict life as it was before they saw it, and yet immediately it becomes the prey of censors and reformers, a danger to public morals...
...lectures, which will be illustrated by lantern slides, are open to the annual subscribers of the Museum. The first, on Tuesday, March 24, at 3 o'clock, will be on "Ethiopia, the Land of Roads"; the second, on March 31, will describe the Pyramid Age; and the third will depict the "Beautiful Temple of Zoser. The lectures will take place at the Museum of Fine Arts...
...drawings submitted in the recent prize competition held by the Boston Society of Architects which was won by two Harvard men. H. B. Hoover IS.A., and W. C. Bonsall IS.A. Besides the two winning drawings, the designs which took first or second awards are also on exhibition. All designs depict the entrance of a moving picture theatre. The duration of the exhibition will be for two weeks...
...footed through the wood, paling with her whiteness the white dogwood blossom; in The Grove of Aphrodite nymphs move to pipes unseen, sentineled by poplars; Dryads dance upon a blowy hill against a far horizon. It is not strange, then, that one of Mr. Hassam's canvasses should depict no less a scene than Adam and Eve Walking out in Montauk in the Early Spring. Hand in hand they go, down a long forest corridor, shades of red and russet deepening round them (red for Adam,, whose name means "Red Earth"), naked little figures wandering among blossoms and friendly...
...greatest Art in the world has striven to depict her hallowed maternity and holy virginity in architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry and music...