Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, 60, Bavarian brewer's son, longtime Luftwaffe commander, who helped stage the aerial massacre of Rotterdam and blitz on Britain...
When the HDC-Idler production of "Much Ado About Nothing" makes its debut in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday evening, May 23, the directing talents of Fritz Jessner, long a leader of the German stage, will be displayed at Harvard for the first time. He succeeds Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, whose resignation came as a shock to Radcliffe authorities...
What makes a musical a success perhaps more than anything else but the songs themselves are the little touches of humor and sentiment that characterized "Oklahoma!" "Memphis Bound" has them--all the way from the scene where Sir Joseph Porter sails onto the stage preceded by three boats marked "Sisters, Cousins, Aunts" to the situation which finds three Andrews-like sisters playing Josephine all at once because they are an inseparable team...
Hailed as the successor to "Claudia," "The Enchanted Cottage" maintains that rare quality of its predecessor, the retention of stage devices on the screen. Progressing from "Claudia," it gives the camera a freer rein and escapes the charge of not taking advantage of its medium. Still, there are no airplane duels or automobile chases in "The Enchanted Cottage": the tranquility and reliance on suggestion that characterize the theatre also characterize this movie...
Alfred Noyes, British poet (The High wayman) now living in California, advised San Francisco conferees to renounce power politics for "the religion of unselfish love. God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies." Colonel Robert S. Allen, onetime co-columnist with Drew Pearson (Washing ton Merry-Go-Round), lost his lower right arm by amputation after being wounded in Germany, captured, freed three days later by advancing...