Word: modernistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Architects are often heard scoffing at interior decorators. They feel that their own diligent study of ornament and design is a better basis for indoor work than the fancies of a chintzy enthusiast. In- teresting therefore is the exhibition, now at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, of modernist interiors conceived by seven architects, a landscape architect and a ceramic worker...
...reason for any conflict between the Fundamentalist and the Modernist or scientific point of view, nor should belief in one theory necessarily force us to reject the other. Belief is a matter of faith, and I believe If you will pardon me for saying it, my belief is not a theory. It is a living truth. I would as soon think of denying the reality of the sunlight Why argue with darkness...
...diversified are the Geddes' talents that they prevent inclusive labelling. He has written and designed an Indian epic-drama called Thunderbird. He originated the square lettering seen in the advertising of Dodge motorcars. The modernist trend of store-window decorating owes much of its momentum to Mr. Geddes' early influence. He has conceived scintillating decors for Ziegfeld pageantries. He was co-architect of Manhattan's new Guild Theatre. When Producer Max Reinhardt staged The Miracle in the U. S., Mr. Geddes transformed the theatre into a Gothic sanctuary which cast a mediaeval and holy glamor on the nunneries. Now, among...
...dancers are the Russians Mikhail Mordkin and Adolph Bolm, the American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady, Elisabeth Marbury...
...stood and declared that man needs a new concept of God based on science, a concept such as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, famed modernist preacher, might formulate. He said the ten commandments would have to be revised for this enlightened age. He declared there...