Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mainstay of Old Vic repertory, Actor Richardson is currently playing lead in two of its other productions, Arms and the Man and Uncle Vanya. He and his great friend, Actor Olivier, split the big male roles, as a team are unmatched today on the British stage...
...corned it up. The show traced the growth of a dancer from an eight-year-old student "rat" to the première danseuse in Giselle. Late in the evening, for the first time in its history, the Opera lifted all its backdrops, baring the entire 185-ft.-deep stage. Even members of the orchestra stood up in the pit to watch. Then stagehands in new blue uniforms (they refused to appear before the Americans in faded ones) changed sets, set up scenery for Les Deux Pigeons in two minutes, 30 seconds. In the lobby at intermission G.I.s talked knowingly...
...with his sets for The Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...
...American portrait painter's son, Mielziner was born and brought up in Paris, spoke French till he was ten. He himseif studied to be a painter, switched to stage designing partly because he was mad about the theater, partly to be sure of an income. Says he: "I've never been sorry," pointing meanwhile with an artist's pride to the prices and praise his stage drawings have fetched...
...marine in World War I, Mielziner served for three years in World War II doing camouflage for the Army Air Forces. It proved an interesting reversal of roles. "On the stage my job was to make people grasp a situation as quickly as possible. In camouflage, my job was to keep them from grasping...