Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silent Night. In Tokyo, a theatrical troupe went orientally on strike: actors came on stage, went through the entire play, but did it all in pantomime...
...Park Avenue" concerns itself with top-drawer sassiety and the casual interpretation of the marriage knot which has long been characteristic of stage aristocrats. Through two overdrawn acts, Mrs. Sybil Bennet of Oyster Bay joins a covey of her lady friends in pulling off matrimonial deals and counter-deals fairly devastating in their nonchalance...
...sped from Hollywood to Manhattan-but not to Broadway. What sent her packing was grandmotherhood, her first (see MILESTONES). She was not homesick for the theater; she liked Hollywood fine-the weather, the sunsets, the Pacific, the moon. As for cinemacting: "It's so much easier than the stage," said she, "it's a shame to take their money...
Just when, if ever, would she return to the stage? Not till she found a play she couldn't resist. "It will either have to be about something very important,'' said she, "or about nothing at all. I would really like one about nothing...
Astronomers have long passed the stage of studying the heavens directly with simple, visible light. Last week, at Madison, Wis., the American Astronomical Society learned of some new, fancy capers which light can be made...