Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the surging crowds, the loud music, the furious trading and the boastful oratory of the Republican Convention, Philadelphia seemed almost shockingly quiet. The Democrats had not come to town to stage a war dance, but to seek a cure. Their quarrels were concerned with the efficacy of political liver pills, and they looked at each other with the doleful gaze of incoming patients in a hospital...
...linked sweetness long drawn out, the last bright notes of a Haydn string quartet drifted out of the hall. The first violinist stood up, walked to the center of the University of California's Wheeler Hall stage, and paused for quiet to make an announcement. "Last night," he said, "one of the greatest artists of quartet music, Robert Maas, died.* We owe him a tremendous debt . . . our next number will be in his memory." Then the four fiddlers of the Griller String Quartet played "Consummatum Est" from Haydn's Seven Words of Christ on the Cross; they played...
...March 23, 1922, over WEAF, from the stage of the Palace Theater, featuring the late Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and Dr. William B. Millar...
...stage-struck Newark boy who acted on Broadway, then switched to writing. After six years as a Hollywood scripter, Dore Schary (rhymes, in Hollywood, with hoary sherry) won an Oscar for his work on Boys Town (1938). He moved forward fast-right into a producer's office, first with MGM, later with David Selznick...
...musical version of Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's 15-year-old comedy of smalltown life in the Teddy Roosevelt era. In some respects, it is still fresh, for Director Rouben Mamoulian has attempted to follow on film the pattern he used on the stage with Oklahoma! Instead of unfolding in rigidly separated plot scenes and musical numbers, Summer Holiday was planned as a flowing synthesis of songs and dialogue...