Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater has placed tickets on sale for its second production of the fall season, Chekov's "The Sea Gull," starring two-time Academy Award winner Luise Rainer. It will be Miss Rainer's first stage appearance in Boston...
...With breezy informality, Mr. Kimball brings the operatic stage to you for your pleasure. Without its mothballs and sometimes outdated traditions, the music and action take on new life and dramatic power." This introduction is typical of those to be found in the fall course catalogue for the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, a twelve-year-old information bazaar housed in William Brattle's 294-year-old manse next to the Brattle Hall Theater...
There's a reason for it, of course, Rock-climbers are always practicing for the day they'll be climbing alpine peaks, when there won't be any belay from above and there isn't any choice of easy routes. When they reach this stage, they will travel in pairs tied together by a rope. One man will tie himself to the cliff wall by wedging a "piton" or spike into a crack, while the other man climbs. Sometimes mountain-climbers have to drill holes in the rock and screw in expansion bolts to conquer a difficult cliff...
...have tickets for the new play at the Plymouth. It is called "I Know My Love" and is an adaption from the French of Marcel Achard by S. N. Behrman. Mr. Behrman has been responsible for some of the more delightful and urbane comedies that have flitted across our stage in the past years and that he has not lost his touch was evident Monday night. That the stars of "I Know My Love"--Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne--have not lost their touch for making Mr. Behrman's lines (or anyone else's) seem like something much more wonderful...
...rate, when the Luunts are on stage this reviewer would prefer to abandon the critical approach. It's superfluous to say much more than that the Lunts are back. I know My love...