Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Ed Wynn (real name: Isaiah Edwin Leopold), 59, lisping, giggling star of stage, screen, and radio, author-producer of Broadway hits (The Perfect Fool, The Grab Bag, Ed Wynn's Carnival), father of Cinemactor Keenan Wynn; and Dorothy Elizabeth Nesbitt, 41, of New Rochelle, N.Y.; he for the third time; she for the second; in Las Vegas...
Last week Martin Browne's R.D.S. gave the cause an added boost. It helped out the Sheffield City Training College in a week-long course in religious drama, joined in instructions and demonstrations that ranged from how to walk on stage to how to produce a play. Said one bespectacled girl: "It's been 100%. Absolutely something for everyone." Sheffield's school was the biggest practical effort the R.D.S. has seen so far. Its success has already led to planning courses like it in three other cities...
...still Andy May. When he stepped on the stage, the rest would retire to the wings...
...Centennial Summer's outstanding virtues: the unpretentious plugging of its pleasant music (one of the late Composer Jerome Kern's final movie chores before his death in 1945). No melody is bellowed from a stage or smothered in a big production number. Every song is tossed off, impromptu style, by whatever talent happens to be standing around at cue time. Even Constance Bennett, who presumably never took a singing lesson in her life, has a fling...
...third stage, damage to the heart may be prevented by good care (mostly a long rest in bed). But, says Dr. Schwentker, "sometimes damage occurs even under the very best of care. More often it occurs because the very best care is not available...