Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First National Studios, amidst the smoke and din resulting from the presence of countless newspaper photographers. At the conclusion of this process, the stars of the picture world, to be, were given three minutes each in front of a First National field camera, during which these they were to depict, for the photographer and acting director, all of their facial eccentricities. Three hundred feet of moving picture film was used on each...
...Manhattan performance in manuscript. Pan and the Priest it was called-Pan, the Pagan spirit of unfettered emotions, crossing swords in an endless battle with the Priest, meditative ascetic. Critics found it "striding with energy and lifted head, large- molded, full-throated," "excellent music for a feature film, to depict the struggle of the upper and lower natures of man. . . . concentrated noise," "displaying nothing of striking originality in either melody or harmony. . . ." The sleek, confident folk in the orchestra and the boxes, their less fortunate fellows four flights up, received it warmly, clapped and clapped until Composer Howard Hanson,* tall...
...Great God Brown". As proteges of Professor Baker, both playwrights have done not a little to enhance his established reputation, and even the most casual acquaintance with their work reveals the fact that they are perpetuating the best traditions of the deceased 47 Workshop. Despite divergent individualities, they both depict life with that intangible quality which springs from seasoned reflection they both deal with the inherent essence of life rather than trivial social situations, and lastly they both consider the mode of expression as profoundly important and capable of variation as the components of humanity...
...masterly if copy could be prepared for the Saturday Evening Post showing Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis in part of an extensive wardrobe designed and cut by Messrs. Hart, Schaffner & Marx; or for the Cosmopolitan, Town and Country, Hearst's International, etc., etc., to depict Mrs. William Randolph Hearst fitted and satisfied with Shur-On eyeglasses...
...American life reduces itself essentially to violent alternations of Work and Play"?so says John Alden Carpenter, U. S. composer; so does he depict it in his new ballet, Skyscrapers, given its premiére last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Great steel skeletons point into the sky; steel-colored men, monotonously alike, pour life into them . . . Any Coney Island, with its merry-go-rounds, its sideshows, girls, sailors, street-cleaners, sandwich men, time clocks . . . No story, says Mr. Carpenter, just American life?Work and Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life...