Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Handy, 71-year-old Negro composer of the St. Louis Blues, vigorously scotched recent reports that his life story was about to be put on the stage. "Anyone presuming to dramatize my life without permission," he announced indignantly, "will be haunted to the full extent...
...Bolger, gangling, long-faced stage-&-screen comedy dancer, heading an expensive variety show that bogged down mainly because Bolger is better seen than heard...
Said Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnarn and Lawyer John Foster Dulles, speaking for the Federal Council of Churches: "If we, a professedly Christian nation, feel morally free to use atomic energy in that way, men elsewhere will accept that verdict . . . the stage will be set for the sudden and final destruction of mankind...
...accent. Picture Ralph Dumke as a mediocre W. C. Fields, General Grant popping in and out with trite world peace comments, Beacon Hill prudes condemning the immoral waltz, ballet scenes dragged in now and then, all this with gaudy costumes, plaids of all descriptions and colors splashed on the stage...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...