Word: stage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haiti," which opened last night at the Copley in a revised and amplified version sponsored by the Federal Theatre Project, combines some of the best and some of the worst features of stage production. Any critical analysis, however, should be prefaced by the comment that the play itself is in poor taste, particularly in view of its sponsor...
...role of a former slave and the father of Miss Karam. His role is very sympathetic and not very exacting, facts which make him the outstanding figure of the drama. Little can be said for the other actors white or Negro, except that they appear clumsy on the stage and give unnatural emphasis to their lines, faults that will probably be ironed out as they become accustomed to their parts...
Celebrating what she called her 46th* birthday with a jolly, jampacked jubilee in Los Angeles' Angelus Temple, Evangelist Aimee ("Dear Sister") Semple McPherson romped out in front of her congregation appropriately dressed as a milkmaid, carrying a glistening pail brimful of milk. Pals and paid hands on the stage were treated to drinks. When the pail was empty, Sister Aimee began to sing (see cut), then took up a collection, dumped it in the pail...
...honest, nimble play, Oscar Wilde is made a much more important one by British Actor Robert Morley's performance of the title role. Already known to U.S. cinemagoers for his fine Louis XVI in the current Marie Antoinette, Morley achieved stage fame overnight for his Oscar Wilde. From start to finish he is Wilde: whether softly purring his feline epigrams ("Frank [Harris] is asked to all the best houses-once"; "One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing"); or fighting in court, desperate and cornered, for his freedom; or sinking...
...contradictory First Quartos and Folios, bristling with controversial motivations, above all dealing with a chief character as baffling as he is baffled, is truly-in Critic T.S. Eliot's phrase-"the Mona Lisa of literature." Its elucidation requires not so much scholars as detectives.* When seen on the stage in its full proportions, Hamlet is possibly more of a riddle than ever; but at least, by offering the spectator all the clues, it gives him a far better chance to guess for himself. In the usual acting version, Hamlet confines itself to a single complex character study; uncut...