Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly-formed unit of UN, the Commission is currently in the organizational stage, and all that could be learned yesterday is that it will be composed of representatives of the 11 Security Council member nations and Canada, and that a Dr. Frey, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, will be chairman...
Died. Antoinette Perry, 58, one of Broadway's few successful woman directors (Strictly Dishonorable, Harvey); of heart disease; in Manhattan. Tony Perry, ever the angel of tyro actors, was the wartime guiding spirit of the American Theatre Wing, left her heart at its seven Stage Door Canteens across the nation...
Fashionable Parisians, convinced that inner lavements purified the complexion and produced good health, took as many as three or four enemas a day. The craze was often burlesqued on the stage, notably by Moliere, and it was a lively topic of elegant discourse in the salons...
...agreed to buy such a plane, if it will meet performance specifications which. sound fantastic. To meet them, the plane would have to be powered with gas turbine engines with an equivalent of 5,000 h.p. each. Such engines are still in the drawing board stage...
Died. Charles Butterworth, 46, stage & screen comedian whose hesitant, apologetic manner helped lift Hollywood comedy out of its custard-pie trough; in an automobile accident near Los Angeles, when his British roadster jumped a curb, struck a lamp post, left 180 feet of skid marks. Originally a newspaperman (said his kindest city editor: "Charlie is worth every bit of his $26 a week"), he got his theatrical start with a Rotary Club lecture in J. P. McEvoy's Americana, later became famed for his deadpan burlesque of the eager, mousy little guy he really...