Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtain went up, ten masked men, in white gloves and spats, gestured grotesquely around a green baize table. To the impious tango rhythms of two pianos in the pit, the diplomats on stage wrangled and jumped on the table, their arguments increasing in fury until one of the peacemakers fired a toy pistol. That brought war-in which death was represented by a goose-stepping skeleton-into the scene. When all who accompanied Death-soldiers in battle and women at home-were dead, the false-faced peacemakers gathered again at their green table and waved their arms and fought...
...song recital was like a new Schiaparelli showing. The people who filled Manhattan's Carnegie Chamber Hall were largely buyers of music: singers, teachers and publishers. On stage, like a mannequin modeling a new plunging neckline, brown-haired, willowy Janet Fairbank paraded the latest creations in art songs. Tucked away in the corners of the auditorium were young composers, some of whose musical stitches and designs were being shown off for the first time in public...
Years Ago (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Max Gordon) floats nostalgically back to Wollaston, Mass, in 1912, when Playwright Gordon was 16-year-old Ruth Gordon Jones and dying to go on the stage. In the story sense, the play simply tells how Ruth got her father to let her. But atmospherically, Years Ago catches the color of respectable, scrimping family life, and that sentimental warmth that can make any previous age seem like the Era of Good Feeling...
Idler has chosen for its fall offering a play that combines the virtues of novelty and freshness with those of genuinely comic writing and stage-ability. And realizing the limitations of its own theater and financial resources, the Radcliffe group has presented it with indisputable attractiveness...
Costumes and settings met the standard, too. Employing the familiar inner and outer stage technique for the 18-scene drama, Directress Mary Howe used a simple method with startling effectiveness in scenes of poverty and grandeur alike. And Catherine Huntington's costumes--wherever she searched them out--were rich and 17th century...