Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soprano Margaret Truman, bedizened with full stage makeup, opened Atlanta's concert season by packing every one of the Municipal Auditorium's 5,000 seats, plus 100 chairs placed in the orchestra pit for the overflow...
...Harlequinade, a hammy theatrical troupe, while rehearsing Romeo and Juliet, encounters all manner of real-life crises, from bigamy to illegitimate children. Faced with such stupendous greasepaint problems as who shall stand where and who shall wear what, the stage folk quickly brush the non-stage problems aside. A relentlessly jolly burlesque, A Harlequinade is occasionally funny...
...pleased. I could create what I'd been struggling all these years to create. My work may seem more joyful than in the past but it's exactly what I was trying to do 50 years ago. It has taken me that long to arrive at the stage where I can say what I want...
...five oldish directors in the front row moved that the minutes be accepted as read. The measure was unanimously approved. This marked the only time during the afternoon that the 30 students exercised their rights of suffrage, but it had the effect of infusing them, at an early stage, with a "sense of belonging." Next on the program was Mr. Ford in an enthusiastic but factual soliloquy entitled "The Treasurer's Report." Mr. Ford prefaced his remarks with a comment that Mr. Cole has never yet missed an annual meeting, which was the cause of some laughter among the five...
...other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense, doc-like stare at the actor speaking, certain extravagant gestures about the face--to name a few. I shouldn't care to see a stage filled with Luise Rainers, all going at once; it would be overwhelming. But the one we have with us now is most welcome and, I repeat, nothing less than captivating...