Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed at first that the entrepreneurs behind the HD-Idler job had missed a point in not making more use of Sanders' natural similarities to the Elizabethan theatre. The original Sanders was a model of the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's day, and today's Sanders is still quite Elizabethan...
Feature of his forthcoming production of "Much Ado About Nothing" will be the lack of elaborate costuming or a curtain. He plans to combine these departures with imaginative lighting in an effort to simulate the theatre of Elizabethan England...
When the Cambridge Antiquarian Society got to work, they found that they had stumbled onto woodwork from the portal to the Old Chapel of Elizabethan days; the chapel where John Harvard worshipped and received his degree. Samples of the wood were kept, but it wasn't until 1936 that T. S. Hele, Master of Emmanuel College, realized the meaning of the wood to Harvard and brought it along with him to the Tercentenary...
...reasons for this sudden flowering are two : 1 ) retailers, cramped by wartime shortages, are stocking practically any thing; 2) small record companies, formerly devoted to such specialties as race songs or Elizabethan madrigals, have taken advantage of the Petrillo feud with Victor and Columbia (TIME, Dec. 6, 1943, et ante} to enter the popular field...
Problem of Evil. For Herriman's creatures, neither animal nor human, the scratchy, tersely subtle drawing, the hog-Elizabethan talk and supralunar world of Krazy Kat were entirely his own - a new private universe of fantasy, irony, weird characterization, odd beauty. It looks as simple as daylight, this illimitably varied, unchanging little comedy about the noble-souled, loony, amorous Kat who loves to have his bean creased by the brick that malicious Ignatz Mouse loves to throw, while Dogberryish Offisa Pupp, the stolidly distraught embodiment of the Law, tries, and forever fails, to stop the brick. The predicament...