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Among the Music Hall's scenic effects: rainfall (from pipes high above the stage); Niagara Falls (out of tanks of an agitated soap solution); a full-sized train that can disappear into the hills; a steam curtain that fills the stage with billowing clouds; an ocean freighter that is torpedoed, splits in two and sinks from sight. The stage has also held a swimming pool, a helicopter and 30 trained horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Shoot the Works | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...scenery: "Generally speaking.. . . designed by the outstanding and most famous scenic designers in the world . . ." (He didn't say when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Answers from the Met | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Busy. A picture showing too much scenic detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Video Verbiage | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Maria Manton Riva, née Sieber, 23, plump onetime actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich, and second husband William Riva, 28, Manhattan scenic artist: their first child (Marlene's first grandchild), a son; in Manhattan. Name: John Michael. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 5, 1948 | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...English experience includes an affair with an English scenic designer, satisfying his vague desire since adolescence to go to bed with a white woman; scrapbooks filled with clippings on his flight; dinners in his honor; studies in aeronautics, half-purposeful, partly an excuse for remaining in England; candid talks with Englishmen whose fairness and honesty about India's nationalism are a surprise to him after the Britons he had known in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Upper-Class India | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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