Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Children on Stage. One way Dorati won Dallas over was to get his supporters young. He gives ten children's concerts a year, and lets talented kids sit in with the orchestra once a year. The first year, only four little fiddlers (one of whom made a puddle on the stage) could make the grade. Last year he had a stage full: 30 violinists, 17 cellists and one violist. He also trained a schoolkids' chorus to sing Kodaly's Psalmus Hungarians-in Hungarian...
...mural, on a concave wall in the school's open-air theater, covered a thousand square feet. Standing on the stage in front of it and flailing his arms like an orchestra conductor, Orozco "painted" by means of shouted instructions to half a dozen agile young artists in bosun's chairs. At last, one morning, he spread his arms wide; the mural was finished and the perspiring painters were free to come down and look at what Orozco had done...
...Cover) Long, long ago, when ancient Greece's local wars were called off so that Greek could meet Greek in the Olympic games, athletes were faddish about food. At one stage, the training-table diet for athletes was fresh cheese at all meals - and nothing else except water. Then things swung the other way: Milo of Crotona, the greatest wrestler of ancient times, ate an entire ox at a single sitting...
...huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull of Deborah Kerr and of James Mason, who, at this tender stage of his career, seems never to have heard of sadism. The only possible reason for seeing it is the work of Robert Newton, an excellent actor who can put amazing variety and intensity of meaning into the oft-repeated dissyllable...
Divorced. George O'Brien, 48. daredevil Western cinemactor and hero of Zane Grey roles; by Marguerite Churchill O'Brien, 37, auburn-haired stage & screen actress; after 15 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...