Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perspective without which no judgment of personal greatness is possible will demand an even longer time before he is given his ultimate niche in the larger history of the American nation. Whatever else he may have been, he was so much a part of the Zeitgeist, of the whole fabric of gradually evolving American national and cultural self-consciousness, that his own biography must be fused with the history of the near-century which his life spanned. And perhaps it is better...
...behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play, one that feels itself easily superior to the crude realisms of ordinary theatre. Thus the hero's papa's whiskers are a haughtily braided Turkish towel, the sage councilors' hats, victrola records. The realistic furniture of the stage is transcended...
...quick sweep to popularity. So, no laggards, they at once produced semisoft collars of goods like the Van Heusen material. He sued them for infringement of patents and got $3,000,000 upon compromise. John B. Bolton expected to receive 30% of this sum for his work on the fabric. He got nothing, sued. Last week there was another compromise, whereby Mr. Bolton received more than $1,000,000 from Mr. Van Heusen...
...times, a tragic figure, notably at the end of Act II when she prays to the Virgin for strength to keep her Spanish down. A happy ending and retribution follow the return of the gipsy man with the whip for his "woman." Effective staging surrounds this cloud-lace fabric with an air of reality. Also Blanche Yurka can soar to glory on the wings of feeble dialogue. To those not too well acquainted with the ways of the theatre, The Squall will offer two and a half hours of simple, tense make-believe...
...Carlo Gozzi. All the fantastic characters of the old Comedie del Arte, of which this play is a fine type, flaunt their explosive fun throughout the action of the play. Mr. Seldes has carefully revised Gozzi's original, and has made of the fairy tale that was its fabric, an amusing travesty on modern life and customs...