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...Then a tremendous tragedy happened around 1900. It was worse than the last dust storm because it covered the whole country. Some men thought that they could make money out of handwriting, and they published copybooks with a stylized, vertical Germanic script, which were adopted in every school in the country. Every teacher had to learn the method, which consisted of slow, laborious finger movements. It used to take a child half an hour to write the same amount that he can now put out in three minutes...
...theatrical fireball which was too hot for it to handle officially, the Theatre Guild in 1929-30 employed a subsidiary, the Guild Studio, to do Red Dust and Roar China, two plays fresh from Moscow. Following year, with Guild money and a Guild script, the Group Theatre, mostly Guild alumni, evolved from the Guild Studio. It presented The House of Connelly as its first play. The social implications concerned the deterioration of Southern landowners. A more sardonic aspect of the U. S. scene was Success Story, the Group's most promising offering in 1932. The 1933 Pulitzer Prize went...
...17th Century. It gave gallery-goers some understanding of the feeling that prompted the 15th Century Shah Ismail to lock his favorite miniature painter Behzad in a cave before going to war with the Turks; that made Persian merchants value one line of perfect script at one gold bar of the same size, one miniature, at one ruby...
...express draws into the station in Subotica (with the station name in Cyrillic and Latin script!) a Yugoslavian soldier boards the train and inexcusably in the roughest way, with no explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they...
Accent on Youth. What happens when an elderly playwright puts his secretary into a script...