Word: stage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant Oliver F. Naquin commanding, put out from the Navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H., to practice fast dives. Besides her commander she carried four other officers, three civilian observers and 51 enlisted men. None of the 59 was unusually nervous, although the Squalus had not passed the testing stage and only two weeks before had been stranded under water for an hour with a fouled blowout valve. Newest and one of the finest of the Navy's submarines (she was commissioned in March, cost $5,000,000 to build), the Squalus was named for the dogfish, which dives...
...Student Union production had more than merely a welcome reception. It had brilliant melodies, clever lyrics, enough humor, and excellent acting by a sincere cast--the whole combining to make palatable a message of steel unionism and proletarian action. On a stage bare except for a few chairs and a piano, Big Business, the corrupt press, and a hypocritical clergy were treated to tuneful rapping...
...President who for six years confidently has led the U. S. into one economic program after another, this was on its face an extraordinary admission. In this case, the admission was made to set the stage for another economic program. The monopoly hearing was about to enter a new chapter of its quizzing; with the aid of SEC it was about to make a diagnosis of depression calling for new remedies...
There Bilitzstein himself played the score on a piano, on a bare stage lighted only by a single spotlight. Although it was originally planned that the author-composer should merely play and describe the action, the actors rose spontaneously from their seats to deliver their lines for a performance which Archibald MacLeish, curator of the Nieman Collection of Journalism, has called "the most exciting evening of theatre this New York generation has ever seen...
Included in the collection is the only Garrick farthing in existence, coined in 1772, and cameos and pictures of Edward Booth and George Frederick Cooke. The Theatre Collection is also exhibiting an old key to the stage door of the Boston Theatre and snuff boxes and fans of famous actors...