Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in your article on "Help for Drunkards" in TIME (Oct. 23). The article does not make clear the fact that an alcoholic cannot be cured-that is, get over his alcoholism, so that he can ever drink normally again. At a certain stage in his drinking career, a drinker passes his tolerance point -that is, he passes from a condition in which he can tolerate alcohol to a condition in which he absolutely cannot tolerate it. After that, one drink will start him off on a drunk. However, his alcoholism can be arrested ... so that an alcoholic can live...
...dispersed, to No. 1 target priority. The result, plus the loss of oilfields in Poland and Rumania, so parched the Nazis for oil that the Battle of France found them making heavy use of bicycles and horses. But the target switch gave German air production a chance to stage a slow, steady comeback. Allied experts now place it at well over 1,000 planes a month, but the Nazis still hoard their fighter strength...
...actors who resented my continuous presence most . . . objected to my temporary absence even more." The acting, Newman found, was highly intermittent. He noted many missed cues and cases of "drying up," found that five times in six weeks one actor failed to show up on the stage on time...
...seen and doesn't intend to see her picture ("I'm not ready to cut my throat yet"). But, remembering it as work-in-progress, she believes that movies can be "just like the stage . . . as subtle, and about things that matter." The intelligence of the general screen audience, she feels sure, is "very much underrated." Just now, beginning a run in the play Embezzled Heaven (TIME, Nov. 13), she is not thinking much about pictures, but she hopes to work in them again-"If," she takes care to say, "it's just like it was before...
...Dance Committee is at present busily engaged in selecting a suitable site for the shindig. An announcement as to the location finally chosen should appear here next week. As an extra added attraction the Messrs. Cross and Brunner will present one of their inimitable stage shows at intermission. Because the Danec is still in a sub-fetal stage complete details will not be available until a later date. Until then, look around and try to find some girl who will go with...