Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast, Fleet Admiral Nimitz called the current period "the pre-invasion stage." One of his amphibious commanders, Vice Admiral Daniel Barbey, had a sort of timetable: "We can complete plans for a small landing within 30 days; for a larger one, maybe 60 days, and for a really big one in 90 days." How Much Bombing? Most of these statements were the by-product of press conferences...
More than 10,000 Romans last week paid a million lire to enjoy a thunderous, starlit performance of Aïda. It was the biggest musical event since the liberation. In the open-air theater at the historic Baths of Caracalla, the huge (160 x 120 ft.) stage was set against two towering piles of ancient ruins. During the great second act 1,194 singers and actors were onstage, accompanied by a 140-piece orchestra. Artists, sets, costumes were roundly cheered-and so was a black & white cat which swaggered across the stage during the act's tense first...
...appearance recalled a memorable prewar performance of the same opera when a bull, led on stage for the Triumphal March, committed a nuisance downstage center. In subsequent performances, an extra bearing a silver platter was assigned to follow the bull...
Alice: Then perhaps I'm talking about the most satisfying stage version of "Alice in Wonderland" that I have ever seen, and I have lived for many more years than you might suppose...
When Producer Firth Shephard begged her to take Arsenic on tour to get away from the bombs, she murmured: "Where do you suggest we start, dear - Dover?" When crusty Critic James Agate saluted her with "You are still the second most beautiful woman on the English stage," she purred: "That's quite a compliment, from the second-best critic in England." Once, leafing through an album, she came across a picture, taken ten years before, of a much younger rival actress. She studied it a moment, then sighed: "My, my, hasn't she aged...