Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billed as "M-G-M's Terrific Western Thriller," the new Beery vehicle (with square wheels) is really a wishy-washy comedy. Beefy Beory is just an easy-going tramp, very un-high waymanlike, who by very obvious means terrorizes a hunk of the Wild West by holding up stage coaches while posing as a respectable citizen...
Then the President went back into the house. Reporters were folding up their notebooks when Eleanor Roosevelt popped up in the door and remarked in a stage whisper to a group of chattering Vassar girls: "The President thinks the election...
...delightful because Playwright Chase (a former Denver newspaperwoman whom Dorothy Parker once called "the greatest undiscovered wit in the country") has written some immensely funny lines, and in Elwood has created a very special character-droll, daffy, warmhearted, touching. It is also partly delightful because Elwood, who on a stage could easily become incredible or dismaying, is played to perfection by veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when, in a tricky scene...
Coming as the first definite announcement among numerous rumors is the word that certain moving and alteration plans for University offices have now reached the tangible stage. Relocation of several offices now over crowded in University Hall will call for the use of Weld Hall in the Yard, and Farlow House next to the Faculty Club on Quincy Street...
Snafu (by Louis Solomon and Harold Buchman; produced by George Abbott) is kid stuff that will flourish at the box office though it often falters on the stage. Telling of a 15-year-old war hero who is shipped home from the Pacific when his age is discovered, Snafu finds its fun in Ronald's thorny return to civilian life...