Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missing Guest. Just before midnight Kieran rose to announce that two men had tied with marks of 85. There would be another quiz to determine the winner. One nervous man-black-haired Lester B. Stone, onetime executive secretary to Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia-showed up on the stage. The second contender-plump, wealthy William Rogers Coe, banker and vice president of the Virginian Railway Co.-had given the whole thing up, was found across the street visiting some pals at LaRue's Restaurant...
...operation 21 months. Its provisions had been invoked in some 2,000 labor-management disputes. All but 278 of them were settled by management and labor without outside help. Conciliators settled 82 of the 278. Conciliation boards settled 64 more, and some disputes are still in the conciliation stage. Only 37 cases ended in failure, and in only eight did the workers actually walk...
Most of O Mistress Mine is about as real-and as valuable-as stage money, but it has a lot of actable scenes am passably agile dialogue. And Playwright Rattigan plainly wrote it for escape. Saic Actor Lunt on opening night, in one o his rare curtain speeches: "If in thi angry, suspicious world we have brough. you an hour or two of laughter, I am very grateful...
...Mistress Mine marks the soth time that Lunt & Fontanne have played together on Broadway. Since 1924 they have acted in everything from Dostoevsky to Noel Coward, from high drama to sheer drivel. They have long been the most famous stage couple in the world-and year in, year out, probably the best box office. On the road, even when it had dwindled into a weed-choked path, they have never slipped. A week before O Mistress Mine opened on Broadway, it had a prodigious advance sale...
...this is, of course, their acting. Beyond its adroitness, beyond its shimmer of personality, their acting has the tingle and fizz that makes high fun of theatergoing. But there are other reasons. One is that the Lunts are married, which lends a piquancy-in-reverse to the stage's most frequent living-in-sinners. Finally, there is Actress Fontanne's miraculous, unchanging youthfulness. Nearing 60, she could still pass for a glamorous...