Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Wilde's plays first appeared on the London stage they were called and it is no wonder--the "greatest comedies since Congreve." After the Victorian theatre, with its platitudinous melodramas and sentimental farces, Wilde's comedies of manners, brilliant and epigrammatic, with a high polish of artificiality, constituted a revival so sudden that it seemed an innovation...
Considering the notable disappointments on the professional stage, the Idler's ambitious and accomplished production of one of the greatest of modern comedies must be reckoned by any standards as one of this season's most worthwhile and entertaining events...
Died. Doris Keane, 63, star of the 1913 stage hit Romance, who married and divorced her leading man, Basil Sydney (said she: "Romance and marriage are two different things"); in Manhattan...
...stage it looked and sounded like a rich, ripe American swingfest. The unrehearsed band, including a West Indies Negro drummer and three American G.I.s, played all around such jazz standbys as Body and Soul and Sweet Georgia Brown, and really got hot on Benny Goodman's old Don't Be That Way. Pace setter was the hot sax of Private Arthur Pepper, formerly with Gus A.rnheim's band-where Bing Crosby first got his start as a soloist...
Ruth Posselt, in the Sonata opus 108, flung herself into the music (endangering the limbs of the 30 people sitting on the stage), turned the first movement conflict into one hell of a brawl, handied rhythmical complexities with fine spirit, and, despite an occasional aggravating tremolo and an E string that was always about to roll over and die, gave a satisfying and exciting performance of the piece...