Word: illusionality
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But the big money behind the business seems to have raised the average age of the Babbitts to seventeen instead of twelve. When the Metropolitan Opera Company can be heard without interruption for a whole Saturday afternoon, when we may enjoy the Philadelphia Symphony fifteen minutes nightly, when Koussevitsky is...
The dance last week was a sorry affair. The Salome was big Goeta Ljungberg who created some illusion so long as she stayed in her blood-red wrapper. When she started nervously shedding veils, feebly wriggling her abdomen, the audience was as uncomfortable as she. But she got her reward...
Technical high spot of this show is Bil Bal Bul, the Little Acrobat, worked by four operators on 20 strings. He hunches himself to gather momentum as he swings in air, never fumbles when he clutches at the crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party...
From the uttermost reaches of a front box, it was recently our privilege to see Mr. Courtney Burr's comedy, "Sailor, Beware." Our disappointment was great at finding that it was not a musical, an illusion we had carried about New York literally for months. It certainly should have been...
Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by...