Word: tableaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when depression-dumped artists hung their canvases on a fence facing Main Street and hoped for the best, has been gradual but steady. Five years ago, Real-estate Dealer Ropp, who is also a painter in his spare time, thought up a final terrific touch: a series of tableaux reproducing famous paintings and sculpture on a picture-frame stage. This year 44 paintings and ten pieces of sculpture are on the program. Its 54 letter-perfect, 90-second blackouts introduced by singers and dancers, separated by orchestral interludes and culminating in da Vinci's Last Supper, have reached...
...months prior to the opening, more than 100 actors, including such local celebrities as Octogenarian Ella H. Goodrich, who does Whistler's Mother, and ebony-skinned Janitor Felix Nelson (Vedder's The African Sentinel), rehearse their tableaux as religiously as any Oberammergau Passion Player. This year, with the Assistance League of nearby Santa Ana offering $200 in art prizes, and the buildup of the local Chamber of Commerce corralling 1,500 spectators into every performance, The Festival of Arts at last got on a paying basis. Jubilant Director Ropp hoped to net $4,000, looked forward...
...unseemly so long as she is disguised as a lifeless ornament in a fishpond or a Grecian statuet, Britons who want to see a comely naked woman can do so by visiting the "nonstop reviews" at London's Windmill Theatre which for five years have included undressed tableaux...
...March 3, 1839 a Parisian peepshow known as a Diorama, in which panoramic tableaux were exhibited, burned down. In it gapers could view Edinburgh by moonlight, the Swiss Alps, St. Peter's in Rome and other romantic views set up and painted by its owner, M. Louis Daguerre. For several years Scenepainter Daguerre had been experimenting with photography, had invented a secret process for taking pictures on sensitized copper plates. Loss of the Diorama was the loss of Daguerre's income. He accepted an annuity of 4,000 francs ($800) from the French Government for the secret...
Sergei Rachmaninoff, the noted Russian composer, conductor, and pianist, is to give a recital in Symphony Hall on Sunday afternoon. His program includes four of his own Etudes Tableaux, Beethoven's Sonata Opus 109, several Chopin numbers, and Liszt's Rhapsody...