Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the conference opened, Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied the rostrum; Senators Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft sat front center. Swiftly Harrison Spangler entrusted the writing of the foreign and domestic statements to committees headed respectively by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, told them to go behind closed doors. The first session then ended...
...Saturday night the field had narrowed to five honey blondes, one chestnut blonde, one corn-tassel blonde, two brunettes, one redhead. They stalked back & forth across the stage in formal gowns, danced, sang and displayed in somber black bathing suits what used to win Miss America contests. Judging took so long that the master of ceremonies ran out of gags, took to reading comic strips aloud. Said Sergeant Silvagni's wife, a bathing-beauty expert: "I thought they'd be a bunch of dogs this time. But they're prettier than I expected. They...
Died. Frank Crumit, 53, Julia Sanderson's genial, longtime stage and radio teammate; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A banker's son, Crumit tried vaudeville while waiting to land an engineering job. He became Miss Sanderson's leading man in 1922, married her in 1927. Singing, ukulele-playing Crumit wrote more than 25 songs, sold more than 4,000,000 recordings...
...broadcasting system is the excellence of its programs, the prescription should be not more public control, but less. . . . To continue with the present system would be to condemn broadcasting to the fate that would have attended the press if, from its birth, it had been nationalized, or the stage if there had never been more than two or three state theaters, or art if the only commissions were those to be obtained from public bodies. There will be no excellence with out competition. . . . The virtues of American broadcasting are not due to its advertising sponsorship. . .so much...
...210th candidate for the stage role of Claudia, little Miss McGuire copped the job hands down on the strength of her general appearance. She almost flunked out when she read the part. Reason: she was so lovelorn over her failure to get a part in Philip Barry's Liberty Jones...