Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gertrude Stein wanted to help Americans understand the French better, so she wrote a new play: Yes Is for a Very Young Man. The young man who is yes very young goes into four acts which is not the same no not the same as Four Saints in Three Acts. She hoped that it would hit Broadway after it played Pasadena next March. "I think this play is very interesting," said Playwright Stein in Paris: it had a quarrel in every act, and "a love element . . . the young man . . . had a tendresse for his brother's wife, which...
...Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only in church choirs. At the tryout, Anne sang the one bit of Bohème she knew: the famous second-act waltz song...
...prominent teeth, she pressed her upper lip well down as she sang. Kinsella kept coming to hear her and tried to coach her back into the uninhibited comedy of her childhood. When she insisted on singing with a small mouth he dropped a plate in the middle of her act. Kinsella became so fascinated with the case of Cass that he gave up the insurance business, became Cass's manager, married...
...What the student needs is a teacher friend. I don't mean Mark Hopkins on a log or Hannah Lyman behind the teapot I mean real teaching by real people . . who think, feel, judge and act with skill...
...Gestapo chief who had tortured him in Germany. The story of the emigres succeeds because of its tough, bold, unsentimental treatment of vast pathos. The story of Ravic's revenge succeeds because of Novelist Remarque's skill in presenting a cunning, brutal murder as an act of justice. The love story fails because Joan, an unpleasant character at best, is never quite real. When she is accidentally shot by her third or fourth lover, Ravic prepares to operate on her. Then he finds that the bullet has shattered a vertebra. No operation is possible. His skill, which...