Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diabolist Corradetti, his red-rimmed eyes blinking in the glare of the stage lights, beamed. His faith in the Devil had been rewarded...
...never been an editor. Last week he got his chance. Hungarian-born Alexander Ince, onetime publisher of Stage magazine, bought Theatre Arts (circ. 30,000), a Variety for highbrows. He invited MacArthur to run it. O.K., wired Mac, on 20 conditions (samples: get me twelve geniuses, move the office to Palm Springs, get Lana Turner as my secretary). He settled for a block of stock...
Ince had been planning to revive Stage (with backers that included Doris Duke and Real Estater William Zeckendorf) when he heard that Theatre Arts was on the block. He figured that it was cheaper to buy it (for about $40,000) and merge it with Stage than compete with it. When her magazine was sold out from under her, Theatre Arts' able Editor Rosamond Gilder, who had been combing Manhattan for a buyer herself, resigned. The new magazine, out in April, probably would be called The New Theatre Arts...
...some debit entries. Carelessness with facts and background in some instances is apparent; indeed, occasionally a story is printed which is entirely wrong. Again, for the older editor at least, their is too much smacking of the journalistic lips over the stripteuse who may currently appear on the local stage...
...John Archer) of a Senator who is apoplectically opposed to votes for women marries a beautiful and unbudgeable suffragette (Joan Tetzel). The suffragette, finding all the men in her new family just as unbudging, makes converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...