Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...version" by Judith Guthrie, the present production varies little from the original: it has been slightly condensed and many bit part extras have been added to accent the circus atmosphere rather than to develop the plot. Tyrone Guthrie's imaginative setting--one large room heaped with stage paraphernalia--also increases the effect...
...Gets Slapped" still revolves around its tragic hero, an intellectual and philosopher who has been driven into the anonymity of a circus clown by a pupil who achieved fame by popularizing his ideas--and has an illegitimate son by his wife. John Abbott, making his debut on the American stage, is highly successful in this difficult role; although his portrayal of "Funny" is probably more dashing than was that of Henry Travers in the Theatre Guild's original 1922 version, his development of both the man's embitterment and pathos is remarkable...
Awaited as the successor to the similar and successful "One for the Money" and "Two for the Show," Stanley Gilkey and Barbara Payne's inevitable third in the series has some good ideas, but is still too close to the dress-rehearsal stage to have achieved the pace and polish that a review needs for Broadway. Luckily for "Three to Make Ready" and for New York, Broadway is not its next stop...
...plant can be jarred out of its bourgeois rut: 1) by a special sort of grafting, 2) by modifying the external environment at the proper stage of the plant's development, or 3) by crossing sharply differing varieties. If done properly, the plant's heredity is "disestablished." It becomes plastic, enterprising, willing to try new methods of getting along in the world. Then, if moved to a new environment, it can change itself to fit the new conditions...
...means Hollywood's handsomest leading man, but probably the one most admired by cinemaddicts of both sexes, Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1901, and got his first stage experience as prop boy in an Akron stock company. He had ups & downs on Broadway and in stock. Then, after several years of trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites...