Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front of flat No. 15A, and behind it a disheveled stagehand snoozed. Two workmen sipped tea on the set of the King and Queen's dressing room, while in the orchestra area the King and Queen (Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney) munched sandwiches. On the far corner of the stage, Director Ralph (Requiem...
...soon as the curtain rises, however, the boys take over, their ebulient spirit chanelled into a properly farcical plot. Mrs. Leroy St. Clair of the 1920 Oyster Bay Set (those were the days and the people) is making the final arrangements for her blonde, blue-eyed, and fashionably flat daughter's coming out party. Daughter is none too happy about it all as she has a poor but noble lover. Widow St. Clair is, herself, being courted by the dubious but delightful Sir Peter who doesn't care as long as women and liquor (on the rocks) are free...
Since he challenged all comers on any subject, Nadler has taken on five, lost only one game (he said that Beethoven's Fourth Symphony was in the key of B Flat Minor instead of B Flat*), and the show now has trouble persuading experts to risk their reputations against him. Nadler's opponents have generally surpassed him in schooling. He never went beyond the eighth grade at Mullanphy grammar school in St. Louis because he had to work to support his family. But he read hungrily, listened to radio music in his spare time, and found that "just...
...opens in B Flat Minor, but is mostly in the major...
...Elis' Dan Cornwell (52.2) finished fourth, while Harvard's Pete Macky, who had edged Roger Clifton in a swim-off to get into the final, finished a surprise fifth in 53 seconds flat. Anders Anderson (53.3) of Navy took the final position...