Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opera House was as near full as most people have seen it for Sunday afternoon's "Marriage of Figaro," and the efforts of the group seemed to have grown along with its surroundings since the switch from last year's site, Jordan hall. The added stage area made the production itself less cramped, allowing the participants a little freedom of motion and contrast in position...
...demands of her role as First Lady ever give her stage fright? A. No comment...
...could fairly compare Perón's Argentina to a European police state. Socialists, even Communists, could stage street-corner meetings and shout bitterly against the Government, if they dared the stones of exuberant Perónistas. But the press throttle was ominous, even though Perónistas, who blandly assert that the press is free, could point to La Prensa's reprinting excerpts from last week's warning by the New York Times: "This is the classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle...
...daughter of a St. Louis jeweler, Kay started playing the piano when she was four, appeared with the St. Louis Symphony at 15. Says she: "I was a stage-struck kid, and I got out of St. Louis fast." She went to California at 17 to teach diving, but made a bigger splash on the air, with the Mills Brothers, and later with Fred Waring. She had a radio program of her own, the Kay Thompson Festival, before ending...
Playwright Rattigan (French Without Tears, O Mistress Mine) has made an effective stage piece of the story-so long as the story can be enacted on the stage. Pinched for drama toward the end, Rattigan, who has a trained theater eye for everything, including trash, trots out a lot of mildly mushy heroics. Never as serious a play as its theme demands, The Winslow Boy winds up little more than well-acted, generally interesting entertainment...