Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Difficult problems of staging inherent in the play itself, together with the limited size of the squeaky, theatre, have been met and solved in a novel manner. The frequent scenery changes called for in the first and third acts have been eliminated by placing two sets on the stage, side by side, and only a minimum amount of imagination on the part of the audience is necessary to follow the movement of the plot...
Jules Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days" is the basis for Mr. Welles' effort. Adapted to afford frequent opportunities for song and dance, it ends up as a series of skits--and, like most revues, it runs hot and cold all evening. When Phileas Fogg is being seduced by Egyptian dancing girls on bluffed by Inspector Fix, he is funny--not so when he is saving Hindu widows from their pyres...
...pilot] I knew went up and performed violent acrobatics following frequent quarrels . . . with his wife...
...house members to express an up-to-date opinion of committee members. A house committee tends to lose contact with the house. Not only are office holding opportunities restricted thus, but one or another "elique" in a house can easily manage to make the committee an "oligarchy of power." Frequent elections lessen these possibilities...
...election procedure is not the only reform necessary in the house committee situation. Other things such as open meetings with the members of the house and the publication of house committee activities would help develop interest in the committees. But the fundamental thing is the right of free and frequent voting. Given this, house committees can become more than the kitchen cabinets of some student strong...