Word: stage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young actress hurried on the stage, where were gathered Mitzi Green and Mary Brian, along with the leading members of the cast of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
Asked whether she still had any difficulty in speaking English, vivacious Simone exclaimed: "Oh, yes! It is terribly hard for me to speak English all the time. When I am on the stage I have trouble because I often accent the wrong words. I think in French, you see, and try to express the same feelings in English, and sometimes I emphasize the wrong thing. I am so glad when I find someone who can talk to me in French...
Because of the fire hazard no drops may be used in Sanders Theatre, where the play will be produced December 14, 15, and 16, and this has placed a heavy burden on the back of John A. Holabird, Jr. '42, who is in charge of the scenery back stage. All the props have had to be made not only realistic, but also mobile, and the efficient shifting of so many scenes has been accomplished only after considerable effort...
...accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned out. To cap all, just before the final curtain Soprano Flagstad took the whole spotlight, and Martinelli had to get up out of his deathbed to go and die on the other side of the stage...
...tenure question has not been blazing any headlines of late, and the lack of concrete news has produced the impression that the whole problem has been permanently disposed of. Actually the controversy has merely proceeded into a second stage whose outcome will be as Harvard-shaking as that of the first. It has been recognized from the beginning that there were two more or less distinct issues involved. The long-run problem of flexibility in the system of appointments was debated and settled in spirited faculty meetings featured by ample journalistic spreads. But the immediate problem of the blow...