Word: exoticism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Few people have any idea how difficult it is to find a play, never before produced in America, which is worthy-- according to any standard of worth--of a second glance. New plays that "take" are immediately snapped up by Broad-way producers, and the club is consequently confined to...
In recent years the Club has been wobbling. From season to season the policy has vacillated, jumping from exotic spectacles to mediocre attempts at Broadway entertainment. The final result of this shifting platform is the announcement of a fall production that completely repudiates the old principle of the Club.
From what was a "peasant's house" d'Annunzio created an exotic mansion and a shrine to genius (his). Its courtyard is the Piazza di Sospiri ("Palace of Sighs") because so many have waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow...
Spanish Album by the orchestra and chorus of the Brussels Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie under Conductor Maurice Bustin and the Madrid Symphony under Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos (Columbia, $10)?Representative music of the Spanish contemporaries de Falla, Breton, Albeniz, Turina. Because of de Falla's impending...
Sevillian choir boys dance prettily in the Cathedral on the festivals of Corpus Christi and the Immaculate Conception. In Chinese temples priests play on exotic little instruments. Hebrew cantors intone wailing dirges in their synagogs. But, thought perturbed members of the Maplewood Methodist Episcopal Church in Maiden, Mass., who ever...