Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Progressives will stage a mock the entitled "The People vs. Peekskill" featuring speeches by eyewitnesses and performers as well as records of the riot--at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Kirkland Junior Common Room...
...thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans. Dali wanted to have Salome's brassiere equipped with fireworks that would shoot off sparks at the end of her Dance of the Seven Veils; also to have a flying hippopotamus zooming over the stage for added effect. Both schemes were regretfully rejected as impractical, along with a plan to flood the stage with blood and have John the Baptist's head float on it. Even so, predicted Designer Dali when they were finished: "Those who protest will protest loudly, but those who like...
When two U.S. doctors went to Germany last summer to check on reports that a new chemical was showing promise in treating tuberculosis, they got an eye-opener. The drug had passed the promising stage, had shown impressive results over a two-year period in the treatment of 7,000 patients. And behind its discovery and development was the potent name of Professor Gerhard Domagk, 54, who won fame-and a 1939 Nobel Prize, which the Nazis would not let him take-as top man in perfecting the sulfa drugs...
Sometimes the hazards are greater. Lucille Ball once had to walk off a Chicago stage when hooligans shouting in the balcony began to get too personal. On his way to make a movie in England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first...
...Eleanor MacLean as Liesl, the maid. Miss MacLean's name has been on the Brattle programs before, but always in the capacity of wardrobe mistress. If this is a promotion, it is certainly a just one, for her maid is one of the funniest of the many funny stage maids I've seen...