Word: tableaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences but at matinees where women predominate, the manager may quite naturally be expected to conclude that his production is not morally offensive to the community. . . . Last season . . . owing largely to the opposition of the daughter of a director, New York was spared...
There are four tableaux. On one side of the stage a bride is being prepared for her wedding night, her long hair is being combed. On the other one sees the anointing of the groom. Then comes the blessing and departure of the bride, to the lamenting of her parents. Finally the nuptial celebration, described this way by Conductor Stokowski for the League of Composers' program note...
...trestles over the Manhattan water front. Gorham's craftsmen exhibited a bronze door for the Detroit home of Edsel Ford and a silver tea set valued at $38,000 which was hidden each evening in a safety vault. Ten construction companies joined in presenting a series of scenic tableaux representing modern processes of building...
Died. Louis Terah Haggin, 81, of Manhattan, president of Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., son of the late famed James Ben Ali Haggin ('Forty-niner, racing man, hops and sheep raiser, mining tycoon, connoisseur), uncle of Artist Ben AH Haggin, onetime designer of living tableaux in the Ziegfeld Follies; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Among U. S. citizens who have obtained Sonora-del Toro divorces are: James Ben Ali (Ziegfeld tableaux) Haggin; Capt. Franck Taylor Evans (commander Brooklyn Yard); Madame Alba; Dolores...