Word: stage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smoker Committee has the task of arranging the program and securing speakers for the huge stag affair held in Memorial Hall in May. Well known figures from the sports world and the stage usually address the class at this event...
...North Richmond Street, Chicago, last week told where he was on the night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present. The perpetrator was not discovered...
Cruel, unwarranted and frequently untrue have been the jokes leveled at WPA. An effort is afoot to put an end to them on the stage. But WPA itself has not ceased making them. Last week it was discovered that a WPA slum clearance gang, sent to tear down a house at 158 Belmont Ave., Brooklyn, found the houses in the block unnumbered, razed No. 156 by mistake...
Saved from "The Lake" by a "Holiday" in "Bringing Up Baby," Katharine Hepburn has again sallied forth in a stage venture, this time a contemporary satire by Philip Barry. And from the wholehearted response to "The Philadelphia Story" last night it is apparent that the star of the Bryn Mawr graduate has risen anew in the popular firmament. Miss Hepburn has chosen this time a fast, clever vehicle, enabling her to display the richness of her virtuosity as a comedienne...
Mechanical cost of each of the four Ring productions is about $2,500. As yet no machinery or stage effect has been devised to make paunchy Tenor Lauritz Melchior or big-womanly Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and the likes of them, resemble the boyish Siegfried, the maidenly Briinnhilde...