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Word: proscenium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staging was the production at its best. The group demonstrated that it is possible to turn Sanders into a modern proscenium theatre, but the symbolistic settings it provided, though good-looking and original, did little to relieve the drabness of the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/5/1947 | See Source »

...scene was London's solemnly hideous Albert Hall. For the observance of U.S. Thanksgiving Day, its dark Victorian interior was blanketed with American flags, and the flags of all 48 states. A portrait of Lincoln hung from the proscenium; a spotlight played on an American eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Greatest Power | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Athenaeum was soon extravagantly restored. Its new, heavily-gilded proscenium and cushioned seats (the first in any Boston theatre) led an inspired advertising agent to boast in billboard posters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

...whom have to have their parts drilled into them by coaches and conductors), she could sit down at the piano and teach herself the most taxing roles. Always a robust Brünnehilde, Matzenauer became one of the most prodigious (203 Ib.) singers ever to prance the operatic proscenium. She married and divorced three husbands. The last of them (a California chauffeur named Floyd Glotzbach) she once fondly described as "100 per cent a man." Margaret Matzenauer sternly disapproves of the career of her daughter, Adrienne Matzenauer, who sings blues and torch songs at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Culinary Contralto | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Down starts out where most musicomedies leave off-with boy and girl singing dreamily of future bliss. As the curtain falls, a stooge in a box noisily protests against the show's happy ending, insists on knowing what happened after boy and girl were married. Thereupon a proscenium mike, representing the voice of the theater, agrees, after a bit of bickering, to follow through. The hero becomes the $25-a-week slave of a pulp publisher, has his pay cut to $21 when the publisher's wife decides to support a Middle-European gigolo, is jailed for exposing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Hollywood | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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