Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last ten years, few leaders on the world stage have been so praised and so damned as Chiang Kaishek, the intense, durable revolutionary who is Generalissimo of China's Nationalist armies, President of China's Nationalist Government, and boss of China's Nationalist (or Kuomintang) Party. This week a growing list of Americans are at long last getting inside Chiang's shaven head...
...studio audience in Manhattan's Radio City (which had scrambled for tickets-free but hard to get) saw a little, erect man in a dark suit coming on stage after the show was already on the air. He led with an economy of gesture; only occasionally did he indulge in vigorous sweeping motions. But at the end Toscanini was obviously exhausted: he kept patting his brow with a scented handkerchief as he made his exit through the violin section...
...orchestral balance. He allows radio engineers no easy tricks either. In La Traviata, a chorus is supposed to approach from afar. A simple way to get the radio effect was to have the chorus stand still and sing with increasing volume; Toscanini insisted that the chorus go off stage, approach gradually...
Taste Without Purpose. The Examiner's exclusive story, carefully edited by the Chief himself, read like a chapter out of an authorized biography of the patriarch of U.S. chain journalism. To set the stage, it went back to W.R.'s dear, dead Harvard days: "If anything, the young Hearst had more of a potential than his fellows. Back of him were an unequaled upbringing, a connoisseur's taste. . . . But, by his own admission, the tall, blond and very elegant heir to mining millions lacked a purpose...
...surprise and a pleasure to report that sometime in between the bouts in the local theatrical feud which has been raging on and off the public stage for the past few months the Harvard Dramatic Club has been able to put together an altogether excellent production of a play that Boston should have seen before 1947, Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty." Perhaps competition is healthy; perhaps the unusual glow of publicity attending all dramatic events has spurred the members of the HDC on to greater things; but whatever the cause, they have managed to put on the Sanders stage what...