Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stock Yards," and "The Rise of the City of Mahogany," were sharply cynical social criticisms. Mare Blitzstein translated one of these, "The Threepenny Opera," whose original script was by Brecht with score by Kurt Weill. This take-off on "The Beggar's Opera" employs such epic techniques as a blackout before songs, then a spot-light on one character who sings about the action and its implications. If the actor doesn't clarify the situation, there are placards on stage explaining what is being sung...
...show broke records last year at the off-Broadway Theater de Lys. Thursday night the Lowell House Music Society will attempt what the Theatre de Lys did not--to isolate the songs from the action with the blackout and other epic staging methods. But lighting and staging are not the only difficulties of the technique. Continuity and dramatic effect are obstacles, for it is quite possible that deliberate breaks for the sake of understanding will also break the interest and concentration evoked by sustained tension. It is also possible that the rapid pace, the harsh atonal music, and the intimacy...
...blackout at the Pentagon resulted from a new order put out by Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson requiring all news or handouts on defense subjects to be submitted to his office for clearance three days before being released. Furthermore, Wilson ordered the military men in charge of public information for the different services to be topped by $14,800-a-year civilian superiors (not yet selected) and a general 30% to 50% cut in armedforces publicity staffs. Except for the details in his orders, Wilson was not acting on his own; he was ordered by President Eisenhower to plug...
Field Day for Gossip. Last week reporters and newspapers all over the U.S. were protesting against the Pentagon's new information policy. Asked about the blackout, Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty told newsmen: "The President has never believed in censorship of legitimate news . . . However, he has also always believed that there is no reason to make available to the enemy technical military secrets." Few newsmen quarreled with that view, but even fewer thought Wilson's directive was a means of accomplishing Ike's order. Wrote Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill: "What [Secretary Wilson] has done...
...REPORTING AMBASSADOR ALDRICH's LONDON HOUSEWARMING PARTY, AT WHICH THE QUEEN WAS PRESENT, TIME, MARCH 7 ERRED IN SAYING THAT "LONDON'S PRESS NEXT DAY UPBRAIDED ALDRICH FOR HIS NEWS BLACKOUT AND THE BALLROOM MANNERS OF THE CRUDE AMERICANS . . ." NO PAPER CRITICIZED ALDRICH AND ONLY THE "EVENING STANDARD" COMMENTED ON THE MANNERS OF SOME AMERICANS PRESENT AT THIS SENSATIONALLY SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL FUNCTION...