Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman smokers will fill Sanders Theatre again with free cigarettes, liquor, and sparkling names of stage and screen early next term for the first time snce the spring...
Police had to be called at the last pre-war smoker to open a path for the eminent Sally Rand after her timely lecture entitled, "What the Typical Stage-Door Johnny is Looking for when he Stage-Door Johnnies a Burlesque Theatre Stage Door...
Central figure in the evening's work was Jerry Kilty, who brought to the role of Falstaff an outstanding comic talent combined with obvious understanding of the multi-faceted role and all its problems. As any Falstaff must, he carried the play on his shoulders: when he was on stage, the production moved out of the limits of Sanders and its audience and into the universal comic meaning of the part. He brought entertainment, and, too, originality and finesse to such speeches as "Banish Jack.." and "Honour...
...House, Brittle Heaven) to treat of New England's renowned recluse, Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86). By now it should be clear that Emily, whose life was as inward as it was intense, is not the likeliest sort of figure for the public glare of the stage...
Eastward in Eden is mostly concerned with what made her a recluse. According to Playwright Gardner, it was her unrequited love for Charles Wadsworth, a married Philadelphia clergyman. Even as a stage romance, there was very little story. Emily (attractively played by Beatrice Straight) met Wadsworth (Onslow Stevens) when she was 23. In the next few years they corresponded regularly and met briefly at intervals. Then Wadsworth prudently bowed out and went off to a distant pulpit in California...