Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violin solo, the old man interrupted the music of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite to clap. Conductor Beecham threw a silencing glance over his shoulder and Composer Strauss looked around apologetically. When the concert was over, the crowds stood applauding while Octogenarian Strauss climbed slowly "down the stairs to the stage. He bowed and croaked "Merci! merci...
...stagehands and all-purpose worriers went about their work in a state of controlled panic. In the dingy dressing rooms, the perfumed atmosphere was intolerably tense. A sudden gleam came into the dull eyes of 375 backstage spotlights. Almost imperceptibly, the curtain rustled up. On one side of the stage was a brass bed containing a mother & child. On the other side, a mixed chorus in turn-of-the-century costumes began to sing...
...orchestra, way over on the right side of the house (permitting a dash backstage in case of a crisis), sat the man responsible for this unconventional musicomedy opening scene. Oscar Hammerstein II, a bulky man with a friendly, roughcast face, kept his bright blue eyes fixed on the stage. Could it be that Oscar Hammerstein was worried...
Before his father, William Hammerstein, died, he left instructions: "Watch over Oscar. He has a great name, but never let him get near the stage." At Columbia, Oscar got good grades in his law courses, played first base (he was too light for football) and then-fatefully-wrote some varsity shows. His favorite contained a fat part for himself: a comic French waiter called Dubonnet (acting is still one of Hammerstein's secret ambitions). Slowly, he began to dream of the theater. But he had the promise of a law job at $15 a week. Says he: "If they...
Herbert V. Evatt, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia, last night carried his two-year old battle against the Security Council "veto" onto the stage of Sanders Theatre...