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Word: stage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lovely Kate Kamen and her shrewd, spectacled husband Kay, the man responsible for bringing Mickey Mouse watches, stuffed Donald Ducks and other Disney-fathered creatures into millions of U.S. nurseries. There was dynamic young (30) Ginette Neveu who in 1947, according to one critic, stepped "practically unknown" upon the stage at Carnegie Hall "and left it as one of the top-rank violinists of our time." Ginette and her brother, Pianist Jean Neveu, were coming to the U.S. for a series of concerts. With her she brought her "most prized possession"-a Stradivarius violin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AZORES: These Are the Paths | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Tennessee Williams, who walked out on an M-G-M writing job before his Broadway success, returned to Manhattan from a second stint in Hollywood. "I had a lovely time," said Williams. "It isn't such a bad place, really." His assignment: writing a screen play from his stage hit, The Glass Menagerie. His latest experience: "I worked with [Warner Producer] Jerry Wold. We get along perfectly. We were in complete agreement on every point . . . Well, we did have to compromise on an ending. They wanted what they call an upbeat ending. I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Myths & Marvels. Every half-hour a small group of museum visitors was ushered into a gallery that had been made over to look like a gimcracked Victorian theater. The antique chandelier dimmed, and on stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Century of the River | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

According to participants, the flare-up began at 11:30 p.m. when the 150 Princeton students standing in front of Cronin's decided to stage a Yard rally. They circled through the Yard and then poured into the Square, attracting a crowd which eventually numbered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Arrest 15 in Square As Riot Follows Tiger Rally | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Ruth St. Denis returned to the concert stage Thursday night to give a dance recital in celebration of her golden anniversary on the stage. Miss St. Denis has not been active for over a decade, and her Jordan Hall concert was something of an historical event. Her audience, made up for the most part of devotees and the curious, seemed pleased at the opportunity to witness a performance by this pioneer in the modern American dance...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE DANCE | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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