Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STORY OF DEBORAH KERR, A STAR IS BORN, BEST PIECE OF WRITING IN TIME IN MANY A MOON. YOUR CINEMA EDITOR HAS DELINEATED HER CAREER AS DEFTLY AS A STAGE ELECTRICIAN SPOTLIGHTING THE GRACEFUL GYRATIONS OF A BALLET DANCER...
...star, but you don't see her until well into the first act, after reams of talk about her, and otherwise the show is complete with tenor, girls, comedian, and all other standard equipment, the most important of which is the feeble plot. While the non-musical stage and even the movies have moved with the times, the musical-comedy, with few exceptions, has lingered lucratively in the past...
...public to more than ordinary demands at the box-office. In the early thirties "Of Thee I Sing," a brilliant political satire, more recently "Oklahoma!" and most immediately, the Irish fantasy "Finian's Rainbow" have found new and successful ways of putting words and music together on a stage. Other producers, however, instead of following the general example of trying something new, follow the specific example of the existing new hit. Consequently "Oklahoma!" was followed by a morass of Americana with fancy ballets, and no further progress. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote their show because they had a story to tell...
...made no safeguards against foreign abuse of atomic power in the Acheson-Atomic Energy report, which Lilienthal helped to prepare. This claim does not jibe with the facts; Mr. Lilienthal subscribed to the gradual-surrender-of-secrets feature of the report which emphasized the need for security at each stage of expanding international control. Just as closely related to fact is "Mr. Lilienthal is one of those typical power-hungry bureaucrats who in recent years . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes . . . have sought money from the public purse to help carry out their plans...
Frank D. Fisher '47, appointed yesterday by the committee to handle all work on the Caen project, said last night that although at this stage nothing can be definite, he was certain that something could be done to aid the French University. At Fisher's request, the International Students Service in Geneva has already begun to see what specific arrangements can be made in Europe...