Word: frontierisms
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...painted a wheezing steam locomotive pure white, "the bridal color." They shined up a train of cars, screwed onto each a Greek crown in electric lights. Chuffing off went tall, fair, handsome Crown Prince Paul, 36, brother of Greece's George II, and traveled up to the Yugoslav frontier to fetch his German fiancee, broad-faced, broad-smiling Princess Frederika Luise of Hanover, 20. The bridal train itself was six hours late on the run from the frontier to Athens-not, however, an undue delay for Greek trains -and there for nearly eight hours some 200,000 Greeks stood...
...half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly the Japanese sleigh driver found himself being nudged in the ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with a pistol. The driver halted, watched, terrified and helpless, while the actress and her Red put on skis, started down a steep slope in the direction of the Soviet frontier and disappeared in gathering darkness. Japanese frontier patrols, summoned by the driver, found no trace of the ski-elopers, said they had apparently made for a Soviet frontier post about a mile from the spot where they started their slide...
...dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss Okada had eloped to the Reds. Final confirmation came when Soviet officials at Alexandrovsk announced they had clapped Actress Okada and Producer Yoshida into a small jail near the frontier. In Tokyo detectives grilled stage colleagues of the pair, learned they had participated at the Soviet Embassy in amateur theatricals...
...pleasantness was not the idea. The mists & veils of Denishawn soon gave way to High Priestess Martha Graham's surrealistic fence-act. Frontier, and to stylized swaying and leaping by dead-pan Grahamite assistants. Favored by streamlined technique and by an early position on an anti-climactic program, mask-faced Graham's parsimonious convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol...
...Last Frontier, Pilgrims of the Wild, Sajo & the Beaver People, and Tales of ap Empty Cabin. All are published in the U. S. by Scribner and Dodd, Mead...