Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with Father (Warner) has been treated by Hollywood with the care and respect that is due the biggest hit in the history of the stage. Warner Bros, bought the play for $500,000 down plus a sizable percentage of the gross receipts. In the filming, Father was a major effort in Technicolor fidelity to an original. Every scene added to the cinema version was developed from the original sketches of Clarence Day, and the picture was made under the supervision of Playwright Howard Lindsay and of Mr. Day's widow...
...real test of this nation's intent to play a leading role on the world stage is still to come. Britain's request to discuss certain aspects of the recent loan, the admitted inability of the Security Council to resolve the Balkan squabbles, the Russian penchant for hiding behind her veto--all are ideal ammunition for those who desire to belittle the benefits of international cooperation. Some Congressmen and editorialists are already saying they--"knew all along" that the United States should stay out of other peoples business...
Dentist Maurice E. Peters of Boston struck the convention keynote when he cried: "We seem to have developed to the stage where the exodontist takes them out and the prosthodontist puts them back, not only decoratively, but quite efficiently and expensively. But is that dentistry? . . . Why should people go to dentists for dental care and end up with artificial teeth...
...that we are at war with Russia, it must be the prayer and effort of every Christian to help win the war at the moral and spiritual level without letting it reach the shooting stage. It is our duty to realize that Communism is pagan, anti-God, and antiChristian...
Said Francis I. du Pont & Co.'s Thomas W. Phelps, a leading exponent of the Dow theory: "The stage is set; if the industrials and rails now can advance above their February highs, the bull market will be signaled." On July 11, the industrials broke through the February high, but the rails failed to follow...