Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans now in the tentative stage are projecting a dormitory to provide living quarters for possibly 1000 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Law School, according to Provost Buck, who declared yesterday that this problem of the graduate had been receiving considerable thought for some time...
Hitting all the flat notes of "Abie's Irish Rose," this caponized musical comedy is distinguishable from a high-school senior show only by the tunefulness of Sammy Fain's songs and the occasional appearances on stage of Miss Vivienne Segal of "Pal Joey" fame. And since Miss Segal isn't visible for more than 20 minutes, one wonders why she ever became enmeshed in this melange of heavenly half-backs, very un-Celtic wans of the Fighting Irish, and the 1946 Army-Notre Dame game...
...usable plot, reasonably funny writing, good direction, and competent acting. Bits here and there lend a professional touch: Two songs, "Love Is a Random Thing" and "A Slight Case of Ecstasy" ought to make the rounds of the dance bands despite their indigestible lyrics. Miss Segal's stage presence and ability to toss off lines shame the rest of the east, although she is given practically nothing clever to say and even less to sing. On a basis of personal attractiveness and or capacity to sing, dance, or be funny, J. Edward Bromberg, Warde Donavan, Alma Kaye, and Margaret Phelan...
...manufacturers have settled on Temptation. ¶ Ernest Hemingway's The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett) was temporarily retitled Without Honor, is now definitely known as The Macomber Affair. ¶ Britain's Producer Sydney Box, after buying a current London stage play, hastily registered the title, Dear Murderer, and notified the Johnston Office. Hollywood has regretfully informed Producer Box that Dear Murderer conflicts with a well-known title long since staked out by a Hollywood studio: The Deerslayer...
...only ten percent of its efforts and even less of its $2,500,000 endowment. Outside the field of censorship, Watch and Ward is just another Legion of Decency, an unofficial vice squad that has the support of most communities. But this controversial obscenity in print and on the stage, according to the Society itself, "is a matter for the individual to judge." The great difficulty with that stand being, of course, that the Society often takes it upon itself to judge the issue for all of New England. In its most controversial cases, Watch and Ward had been guilty...