Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted of eight well-potted palms...
...Fastest campaigner was chunky Socialist Major (a name, not a title) James Coldwell, who zipped by air from the west to the east coast in six days, made six speeches. In an Ottawa auditorium, he stood before a backdrop of signs reading "Jobs for All" and "Homes for All," talked for an hour to an audience of 1,200. His biggest platform promises: socialization of monopolies, high taxes on high incomes, 5,000,000 jobs, 1,000,000 new houses...
...something to see. Broadway Designer Jo Mielziner had spent a wad of State Department money on its four golden, velour columns (for the Four Freedoms), its blue backdrop, the semicircle of 46 United Nations flags, the floodlighting. The effect was just about right-not dull, not gaudy...
Aside from four (4) regrettably rousing renditions of "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow-Wow-Wow, E-Li Yale," "Roughly Speaking" is a tasteful bit of expert light comedy. It may have a Boolah Boolah backdrop for nearly one complete real, but in the hands of Rosalind Russell and Director Mike Curtiz it also has gay nonchalance and a touch of Americana in the reminiscent style of "Our Hearts Were Young...
...days of war with Germany: "I have been in Frankfurt before, but covering it almost end to end today I found no single landmark I recognized. In these miles and miles of ruins there is nothing but dullness and apathy, a state that seems like a sleepwalking trance. The backdrop is complete destruction; the script is desertion in the face of danger. And all the propaganda slogans painted on the walls-'Frankfurt Stands Firm'-'Better Death Than Slavery'-are nothing but a mocking epitaph." (See FOREIGN NEWS...