Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of the audience saw the bird when it left the stage of the Colonial, so that several Poonmen who rushed up several minutes later were unable to trace their pet. Baffled, they returned to their lair to await further developments...
...studios of the Crimson Network he made the "discover;" he asked an erstwhile bit player on the radio workshop, Miss Kay Casale, Radcliffe '47, to read for the open part. Despite her virtual lack of any stage experience, she was quickly given the role...
Difficult problems of staging inherent in the play itself, together with the limited size of the squeaky, theatre, have been met and solved in a novel manner. The frequent scenery changes called for in the first and third acts have been eliminated by placing two sets on the stage, side by side, and only a minimum amount of imagination on the part of the audience is necessary to follow the movement of the plot...
Every technique used by the theatre in the past and a half-dozen odd new ones are employed to take the Fogg caravan around the globe. Silent movies are projected on a screen every few scenes; trains move across the stage; eagles pick up heroes and carry them off; feathers drop on the audience from the ceiling. These peculiarities, combined with a change of scene without panse every five minutes, keep the hapless audience tense, probably more with fear than anything else...
Unfortunately--or perhaps fortunately--for this reviewer, Arthur Margetson was unable to take his place in the lead role of Fogg at last night's performance. The unbeatable Orson, who has only a bit part himself (that of a magician in a Japanese Circus which holds forth on the stage for ten minutes) took over after dire warnings to the audience. Despite his failure to remember a large percentage of the lines, he brought down the house with his completely jocular case on the stage...