Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long a pre-eminent figure on the American stage, Miss. Cornell has accorded initial opportunities in this country to several now successful actors, including Maurico Evans, Basil, Rathbone, and Brian Aherne...
Last week the House of Commons set a jubilant stage for Winston Churchill in his imperial role. For two days men of all parties hailed Commonwealth and Empire, bucked up officialdom for the coming conference of Dominion Prime Ministers (TIME, April 24). Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, most persistent of Churchill-baiters and a recent convert to Empire, called the common tune: ''Sir, we have no intention, any one of us, of throwing the British Commonwealth of Nations overboard in order to satisfy a section of the American press or anyone else...
Going My Way is a sort of friendly contest between two diametrically different kinds of acting: Fitzgerald's, the immensely experienced, stage-wise sort which leaves mere virtuosity miles behind, and Crosby's, which is hardly acting at all, but merely the unaffected exploitation of an amiable personality. The picture shows that neither kind, at its best, can possibly be beat, and that together, they bring just about the last word in teamwork. It will surprise nobody who sees Crosby's performance, and the breadth of his control over the film as a whole, that...
...Sheet." Back in 1914 a tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), easygoing Irish civil servant named William Joseph Shields stood on the stage of Dublin's great Abbey Theatre, quakingly ready to deliver himself of his first speaking role. It was brief. The play was Sheridan's The Critic and his entire role, as "2nd Sentry," was to meet the cue "All this shall to Lord Burley's ear" with a yes-man's " 'Tis meet it should." Just before the cue, the malicious actor next him whispered, and the terrified Mr. Shields repeated, loud & clear...
...such abilities and encomiums, Fitzgerald had a run of negligible roles in Hollywood from the time he and three other Players put The Plough and the Stars on film (under John Ford's direction, 1937) to Going My Way. Said he, on a return trip to the Manhattan stage: "I didn't have the energy to come away. I made a little money and I thought I'd take a holiday. Weeks stretched into months and months into years. ... I didn't like Hollywood. It is a dull and enervating place. And the girls...