Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near Mojave, Calif., highwaymen successfully held up the same mail stage at the same spot for the second time in a month...
Molotov came at last (see below), in due course took his allotted red plush seat in the hall, and with all the others surveyed the stage...
Clearly the German Army was in the stage of panicky crackup before final disintegration. This week the U.S. War Department announced the total of Germans captured by the western Allies since Dday...
...pastoral Tillers of the Soil, the romantic Josephine and Hippolyte. St. Denis soloed her Indian Rajput Nautch, and Shawn whirled through 540 gyrations in his Mevlevi Dervish. At the end, after a Brahms waltz, which showed her still-youthful white body shimmering under turquoise veiling, he carried her off stage, just as he had done many a time long ago. One sentimentalist in the audience whispered: "Maybe they'll go home together." It was sentiment, but not romance, that had brought Ruth St. Denis from California to help Shawn raise money for scholarships on which returning soldiers could attend...
...Corn Is Green (Warner) a very honest adaptation of Emlyn Williams' stage hit about the intrepid spinster who brought literacy to a Welsh coal town, has all sorts of well-intended ingredients, but as drama and as entertainment they come out lumpily, like somewhat heavy dumplings. There are several reasons. Besides the best one-that it wasn't really a very good play to begin with-the others are honorable minor defeats in an uphill battle. But they help explain why the movie, though it may well have a good run too, is less impressive than the play...