Word: pits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate floor last week looked more like rush hour in the wheat pit than a forum for lawmakers. Deprived of their mahogany desks, the Senators sat uncomfortably in chairs so closely wedged to gether that most speakers addressed their colleagues from the front of the chamber...
Tubby, benign Pierre Monteux, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony, came asaving. Last fortnight, his shoe-button eyes shining, Monteux was in the pit at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg theater. Onstage as Orfeo was Kathleen Ferrier (TIME, March 14), the English girl whose sumptuous contralto has earned her first title to the role. The rest of the cast, including a first-rate soprano named Greet Koeman, was Dutch...
...productive and gracious economy of Hawaii was paralyzed last week; its territorial government was powerless to act. Most of Hawaii's 540,000 residents were seething inside like old Kilauea, the volcano with the pit of eternal fire. It was the eighth week of a strike by 2,000 members of Harry Bridges' Redlined International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, C.I.O...
...keep them gawking, Leonidoff can pull such stunts as having an orchestra pit full of musicians swallowed up by the floor, to reappear a few moments later high at the rear of the stage. Lowered by elevator, the pit simply moves through the basement under its own power and gets on one of the three elevators that make up the sectional stage. (The stage revolves, too, elevators...
Then energetic Conductor Norman Del Mar bounced into the tiny pit for some rehearsing. Explaining how to count time and watch his baton for cues, he put the audience through four songs, three to be sung in turn before the opera's three scenes and a finale to be bellowed out with the opera's cast (one-third professional, two-thirds schoolchildren). That done, intermission was announced; in their growing enthusiasm, most of the audience did not even realize that Let's Make an Opera!, otherwise known as The Little Sweep, was already half over...