Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nerve Center. The Dewey machine was a complex affair. The front which it turned to the public in Philadelphia was the Bellevue-Stratford ballroom. There on the stage a gigantic photograph of the candidate, tinted somewhat too vividly, gazed steadily out over the throngs. Around the balcony hung other photographs: the Dewey family playing with their Great Dane; the Dewey family at the circus; Dewey on the farm. Dewey infantrymen passed out soft drinks and small favors to gawking visitors and gave every 200th visitor a door prize. William Horne, a Philadelphia bank employee, was clocked...
...actors as predicted. Taft surprised his critics (who had rated him the lowest of the candidates, telegenically) with earnest, honest, drily witty performances on two LIFE-NBC interviews. Dewey, at his best in a four-way press conference (newspaper-radio-newsreel-television), proved that he had picked up stage presence. NBC ran a specially prepared MARCH OF TIME film of the governor in his younger, stiffer days, which showed that Dewey had changed much more than the part in his hair...
Though she is only 22, Moira Shearer has already decided that a ballerina has too little future; she'd rather become a stage actress. Says she: "It's so awful to become a ballet dancer who is past her prime and have the audiences make allowances for you. I'd rather leave ballet before I begin to drop...
Ordinarily the stage, at the close of Hamlet, is so heavy with corpses that it looks like a hold full of haddock. But Olivier's camera threads among the dead & dying with special tact...
...time. In the strict sense, his films are not creative works of cinematic art: the essential art of moving pictures is as overwhelmingly visual as the essential art of his visually charming pictures is verbal. But Olivier's films set up an equilateral triangle between the screen, the stage and literature. And between the screen, the stage and literature they establish an interplay, a shimmering splendor, of the disciplined vitality which...