Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...unknowns, Christopher Columbus would still have provoked a lively reaction. It employed a medium new to opera: the moving picture. Columbus lived his outward life upon the stage?a tragic life lacking ultimate reward because the land he discovered was given the name of another. Simultaneously, somewhat in the manner of Playwright Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude* there were sometimes shown on the screen his inner thoughts, sometimes his past or future, sometimes the ridicule of others against which he had always to contend. The chorus, too, behaved oddly for a modern opera: stationed on wings which spread...
...theatrical capital of the country last week moved temporarily 90 mi. southwest. The Philadelphia Theatre Association produced Aristophanes' The Lysistrata in a manner which, as the news spread, drew pilgrims and pundits from miles around. The news said that Norman Bel Geddes had designed the set; that Gilbert Vivian Seldes had adapted the script; that Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex were in the cast; that nothing so racy, so robust, so surprising had happened for years, nor often since The Lysistrata had its premiere in Athens, 2,341 years...
...Rudolf Friml Album which includes music from You're in Love, High Jinks, Rose Marie, Katinka, The Vagabond King, The Firefly (Victor, $7.50) - Compiled in the radio-hour manner by Conductor Nathaniel Shilkret; presented by the Victor Salon Orchestra and a capable company which includes the composer as pianist...
Colyumist Arthur Brisbane most rouses the Notch ire. Brisbane's manner of commenting upon world events is thus described: "Two subway diggers, or two stockbrokers, exhausted by the day's work, stand, half-comatose, at the bar of an old-fashioned saloon; between long, refreshing pulls at their schooners they utter, effortlessly and comfortingly, their dazed views on the fall of empires and the rise of Henry Ford." He has little respect for Tycoon Ford, calls him "a typical specimen of the anti-cultural American." The Mob, says Critic Notch, is influenced by scientific discoveries, but its science...
Indeed handsome, the Wurts gardens on the Janiculum Hill which once belonged to the ancient Roman House of Sciarra, are complete with a restored "old villa" and a "new villa" built by Mr. Wurts in the 16th century manner, full of Mr. Wurts' art collection which also goes to the City of Rome...