Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After months of shuffling aur reshuffling, Freshman crew menter Harvey Love finally came up this week with boatings for tomorrow's '51 curtain raiser. But even at this late stage nothing can be considered definite, judging from the tempo of past changes in the Yardling shells...
Coincident with election year, Hollywood has come up with a time-honored favorite son. And so long as Frank Capra sticks to the original Crouse and Lindsey stage play, his treatment is entertaining. The story of the airplane builder who runs for president and discovers that "he must approve everything except sin" has been filmed true to script. Spencer Tracy blusters sufficiently for a man who jumps into politics over his neck and gradually discovers that handing out golden platitudes on silver platters is a tricky business. He winces effectively as his managers tell him that people are nice...
...watches a radio technician chewing gum. But the most fantastic demonstration of earthy affection appears when Tracy plays wing-tip tag with a business underling over an airfield. They barrel-roll among the clouds for all the world like long lost brothers. This is during the people-are-everything stage. A little later, when Tracy momentarily shifts to the votes-are-everything viewpoint, he tells the same underling to stop playing and get back to building airplanes. All in all an amazing sequence...
...sung in monotones by corrupt priests in faraway places. But this is a philosophy; it has a profound message for the initiate and plenty of sex for young and old. As a result of all this drivel, the Missa has been turned in finale furioso of the concert stage and it has been divorced, to as great a degree as possible, from any real point that it has. Its religious message, to use the vile phrase, has been swapped for a fistful of Romantic brotherhood of man cliches...
...atmosphere had changed. Now the chief delegates met around a long table, with Colombia's new Foreign Minister Eduardo Zuleta Angel presiding at one end and two Colombian officers clutching Tommy guns at the other. At one side sat U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, his personal interpreter stage-whispering every word in translation, until the headphones system could be rigged up again...