Word: stage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perilous to any new union is its arrival at the armchair stage, when leaders bred in strife must simultaneously run a going concern and keep their restive rank & file content. Last week the leaders...
Died. Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (real name: Alexeyev), 75, great Russian stage director; of heart disease; in Moscow. Co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and its director ever since, he revolted against classical conventions, emphasized realism, truth, emotional sincerity, charged his actors to "live the part every moment." He was equally proficient as actor, author (An Actor Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter...
Tourists in Hollywood are sometimes disappointed by their first visit to a movie set. Unfortunately, there were no visitors on the Columbia Pictures Corp. sound stage where one day last June five albino canaries, a crate of firecrackers, the studio's mascot cat and half-a-dozen property movers were assembled. One of the prop men, breaking rules by smoking a cigaret, dropped a spark into the firecrackers, causing them to sizzle. The whole crateful exploded and, in the ensuing commotion, the five canaries flew away, the cat produced five kittens...
...tops in all respects. As they acquire prestige, directors acquire specialties. Capra's is a certain kind of peculiarly American, peculiarly kinetic humor, in which the most individual characteristic is an extraordinarily adroit and constant use of "business" to accent the comic line. Unlike Gregory La Cava (Stage Door) or Leo McCarey, whose The Awful Truth took top honors for direction at the Academy this year, Capra has no interest in jokes whose appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile to have made a successful picture from a story as fantastic as James Hilton's Lost...
Seventy-five years ago this July, Georgia readers read with apoplectic rage a new book called A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, the devastating abolitionist journal of Fanny Kemble, famous English actress who abandoned the stage on her U. S. tour to marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading...