Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which Curry called The Mississippi and the book labels Tennessee; John Falter's End of School (Pennsylvania); Dong Kingman's watercolor, Morning in New Orleans; Charles Burchfield's The Great Elm (New York). George Grosz's Tobacco Road looked as if he had seen the stage play, but not Georgia. A boy holding a lemon was labeled Boston; a picked chicken hanging on a door, Ohio. The attempt to label the paintings by states showed how hard it is to put too tight a geographical frame around...
...special police," the defense counsel "who pecks at his cases like a sparrow, as tireless and as careful of the smallest grain," and the intelligence officers "who are usually of notably mild appearance, having been detached from the ordinary Army service because of their clerkly gifts." To set the stage she went clear back to the '80s and the meeting (at Harrow) of young Winston Churchill and young Leopold Amery, when Winston pushed Amery into a pond. She sympathetically followed Amery's career into the respected, conservative Cabinet member he became. Of his wayward elder son she wrote...
...actually the great-grandfather-of Byronism. Actor Evans, however, does not play him that way. His Hamlet, even before it braved possible G.I. guffaws, was a man of energy and action. His Hamlet remains, for that reason, not complex or deeply felt. But it has great stage authority, fine comic and sardonic moments, and elocutionary skill that makes every word of the part clear, every line of it count...
Dream Girl (by Elmer Rice; produced by The Playwrights' Co.) is the season's first entertaining light comedy and the stage's first use of an entertaining light-comedy idea. Playwright Rice has examined a day in the life of young Georgina Allerton (Betty Field), a reckless, vast-repertoried daydreamer. A high-spirited little goose, Georgina is a chain-smoker of aromatic fantasies. She is far better at dramatizing than at understanding herself, and has a bit of trouble sorting out the men in her life...
...quicker ones of character, Actress Field (in private life, Mrs. Elmer Rice) shows astonishing verve and versatility. Only a step or two behind her in skill is Wendell Corey as the newspaperman. Not the least entertaining part of Dream Girl is its ingenious stagecraft: three sliding platforms on which Stage Designer Jo Mielziner has mounted all sorts of stylish and witty little sets, using normal lighting for Georgina's real life, a blue spot for her trances...