Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earthquake, Jack London and two world's fairs in its past, San Francisco looked forward with interest to the World Security conference. Last week, as the vanguard of a small army of delegates and correspondents began arriving, the city was ready to do its part to set the stage of history...
Barefoot Girl. The cellists had quietly wooed the woodwinds in the opening bars of Weber's Invitation to the Dance, and the woodwinds had answered softly to the climactic bar 23, when the invitation is over and the waltz begins. Suddenly from the left wings of the stage bounded a dark-haired, barefoot girl in black jersey shirt and slacks-in perfect time she lightly leaped across the stage, past the harpists, past the second violinists, behind the bent back of Maestro Toscanini, in front of the first violinists...
...audience, hardened to Hollywood interpretations of the arts, was not much surprised. But they saw that something was amiss when a stage manager appeared in the right wing. The dancer reversed her field, went bounding back across the stage, flinging her arms and pirouetting. As she passed behind the 78-year-old Maestro a second time, he spun completely around, stood dumfounded. "Stupida!" he exclaimed...
...curiously mixed crowd-aging ladies in purple velvet and flowered hats come to recall a bygone day, brash youths come to scoff at a legend. Silver-haired Ruth St. Denis, 67, high priestess of the dance, was returning to Manhattan's Carnegie Hall stage, with Ted Shawn, 53, her husband and partner from whom she had separated 13 years...
...Shakespeare's most hazardous roles with confidence and finesse. His Hamlet is cool and calculating, and he convinces his audiences at the outset that his madness has method in it. Handing the difficult soliloquies like the veteran he is, Duvey is at his heat when alone on the stage, for he inclines to recite rather than act his lines...