Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After playing "de Lawd" in The Green Pastures for five consecutive years without missing a cue or a curtain call (TIME, March 4), Richard Berry Harrison was found in his Manhattan dressing room "in a state of super-weariness" just before the spectacle's 1,659th performance. The 70-year-old Negro actor was hospitalized for rest. Into the part stepped his understudy and friend of more than 40 years, Charles Winter Wood, 69, longtime teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Understudy Wood had traveled 40,000 mi. with the show since 1930 without having a chance to walk...
...achieves a state of grace before each performance by meditating alone for half an hour, and has never yet made an entrance to Gabriel's strident cue "Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah" without breaking into a cold sweat. "If you got to thinking about it too much and let it get hold of you offstage as well as on," says he, "I don't think your sanity would stand it. It's a hard part to play." He has had to put up with a good deal of hysterical adoration. A friend of 50 years...
...world's greatest conductor. But Toscanini rapped quickly for attention and proceeded to make something vital and thrilling out of Bruckner's long-winded Seventh Symphony. When the performance was ended the audience stayed to cheer but the conductor plucked at the concertmaster's sleeve, his cue for the players to clear the stage. For Toscanini, who scorns the dessert of applause, the evening ended with the last mighty unison of the Bach-Respighi Prelude & Fugue...
...girl snatched by this gang is its personable chief. It is not much of a surprise, therefore, when he and the lady fall in love. Actor Shaw, perhaps rightly, performs his part as if he expects the end of each line to be followed by a song cue...
Spoiled Japan- This was Japan's cue to stick out her tongue at the World, and in Philadelphia the job was neatly done by Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito, the virile young tippler who announced: "My chief purpose in coming here is to drink whiskey with good Americans" (TIME...