Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...projects required immense capital outlay as well as unlimited confidence in Geoffrey Pyke, which is why most of them remained in the idea stage until he joined Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations staff during the war. In that atmosphere of frenzied immediacy, amid the flinging about of millions of pounds and dollars, Geoffrey Pyke had his innings...
...Good Cause. The youth of Riofreddo, who had feared that Catholic Action would be rather dull, loved the idea. The reluctant few were convinced by the monitory appearance of Father Francesco's green umbrella before their doors. Arturo Vasselli, the carpenter, volunteered to construct a rough stage in a barn. The play chosen was Le Pistrine (the name of the prisons where early Christian martyrs waited their turn to be thrown to the lions...
...Francescatti acted very much at home. Instead of a fireplace, however, he had the audience in Carnegie Hall in front of him last week, and the Philadelphia Orchestra behind him. When he wasn't fiddling, he lolled comfortably near the podium, gestured familiarly to Conductor Eugene Ormandy, even stage-whispered to him during the concerto. "That was pretty good;" he would say to Ormandy, or "We got it that time...
...Molly (by Gertrude Berg; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay, Herbert Kenwith and David Cummings) makes stage figures of those long-popular radio voices, The Goldbergs...
...plays-one of which makes its American debut on the Agassiz House stage-share twin billing in the spring program lined up by Radcliffe's Idler Players. Patricia Troxell '49, president of the Annex experimental theater group, announced this week that Tennessee Williams' "Lord Byron's Love Letter" and Christopher Fay's "Phoenix Too Frequent" will be produced at the Annex next month...