Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Izvestia last week: "A complete lack of ideas, low professional culture, bad taste-these are characteristics of the band. . . . Homemade wit and a vulgar musical stew . . . fills nearly all the program. . . . Perhaps this can be tolerated in forgotten places of western Europe, but not on the Soviet stage...
...what did His Excellency think about the sign hung on a lamp post near his house: "This post is waiting for President Perón"? The President had a scornful, possibly significant answer. "I am not worried about the future," he said. "If anybody wants to stage a revolution, I will stage one myself a week before him. All it will amount to is providing a few yards of rope to my 'descamisados' (shirtless ones) and then we will see who strings up who. I have half a million descamisados, and as Napoleon said, with me at their...
Margaret Truman's "vacation" back home in Missouri turned out to be a summer of heavy voice study. Radio and concert work had been offered her, but she was setting her sights higher: opera. Bess Wallace Truman's daughter had already picked a stage name with the idea of not trading on her father's reputation, though doubtless nobody would be fooled. The posters would advertise "Margaret Wallace...
Theater of Romance (Tues. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Somerset Maugham's The Letter, starring stage and screen star Miriam Hopkins...
...Santiago, Chile, a deaf woman in the jampacked audience at the Teatro Central had trouble following the ceremony on the stage. She turned to her husband, asked why the American nurse was getting a medal: "Because she had 8,000 babies," he answered. "Impossible!" gasped his wife...