Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scottish nutrition expert with the longest white eyebrows in public life last week took the center of the world food stage. Sir John Boyd Orr (65), Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, convened his group in emergency session in Washington. "This is no '90day' crisis," Sir John warned. An organization must be established to see "that the people of the world will never again suffer from famine...
Soothing Syrup. In domestic policy the new Communist line is equally placatory. Thorez insists that the present stage of French development calls for a democratic regime and that the only ambition of the Communist Party is to be the most democratic of French parties. It follows, he says, that the French Communist Party will govern only if it gets the support of a majority of the French people. On nationalization of industry, the last Assembly went almost as far as the Communists want to go, except that they would like to see all-rather than some-heavy industry taken over...
...West, the iceman's unattainable ideal, was back on stage after a year's layoff. In her new play, Ring Twice Tonight, she opened in Long Beach, Calif., then rumbled northward, hoped to last all the way to Broadway. Her role: an undercover agent for the FBI. Supporting cast: two maids and 15 men. Covering her added attractions: two negligees (one at a time)-one in orange and dove grey, the other just lacy orange, backed with white satin here & there, and here & there...
Some of the contestants went out on words they obviously knew, because of stage fright (one girl tripped on across). Indianapolis' entry, twelve-year-old William Frazer, wore a red-plaid "lucky" shirt, its pockets overflowing with rabbits' feet and four-leaf clovers. (He went out on mendacious.) The audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants...
...seeming as incongruous as a fashionable charm dangling from a severely classic bracelet-was Sheridan's 18th Century burlesque of the theater, The Critic. Ragging the playwright's vanity and the critic's venom, kidding the knee breeches off the bombast that then held the stage, The Critic is frequently amusing but fatally long. The Old Vic gave it as bright a production as Broadway is likely to see, and tossed in perhaps the most amazing quick-change that Broadway has ever seen. Half an hour after he had vanished as Oedipus, with blinded, bleeding eyes. Actor...