Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain is suffering so badly, just how does Dictator Franco manage so keep his subjects content? One reason is the complete censorship of foreign news and films, (even Western stage drama is carefully screened), so that the people are kept in ignorance, and can be tuned to official propaganda. Another reason is that the Army is kept large and happy. All bank entrances, sports events, and small gatherings are well attended by Franco's neat, prosperous, green-uniform "Guardia Civil...
...film--with Jolson's first wife leaving him because he preferred his career to her. Unfortunately, most of the interesting material had been used up in the first film, and as a result the sequel's plot is pretty pallid. Jolson, torn between the desire to return to the stage and the feeling that his time has passed, moons about despondently while the rest of the cast worries out loud about him and tells him he ought to relax...
Except for the singing, the picture is a dead loss, and even the singing is marred by Larry Parks' stiff and unconvincing stage mannerisms and his way of ebbing and flowing behind the microphone. Ardent "mammy" fans may be able to endure the plot to hear the master sing--but they will have to be made of sterner stuff than...
...busied themselves reconsidering his theory and plugging holes in it. Last week, in a Chicago lecture, Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of the University of Chicago presented bis own neo-Kantian hypothesis. Basing his reasoning on hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings of Saturn. The disc, said Kuiper, grew denser and denser until it became unstable and broke into whirling eddies...
Died. George Clinton Densmore Odell, 83, onetime Columbia University professor of dramatic literature (he retired in 1939), compiler (since 1920) of a monumental (15 volumes, over 5,000,000 words) Annals of the New York Stage, a chronicle of the theater from 1750 through 1894; in Manhattan. He had planned one more volume to end his annals...