Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacationing Eleanor Roosevelt watched Broadway Producer John Golden finish his portable stage in Hyde Park's library. U.S. Army actors were ready to give the five one-acters, written by Army men, which had recently tickled Broadway on a one-night stand. Settling down for the show, Franklin D. Roosevelt grinned back at Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Vincent Astor and assorted gold braid. The President shed his coat, advised others to do the same. The third play was a well-sustained gag by First Class Private Irving Gaynor Neiman about a barracks butt...
...Frankie, you're killing me!" An usher gently shook her; she came to for a moment, relapsed into reverie. A girl in the second row held a pair of powerful field glasses glued to her eyes. Another minced to the stage, raised herself on tiptoe and tenderly deposited a white flower at the crooner's feet...
Cocking his head, hunching his shoulders, caressing the microphone, Sinatra slid into She's Funny That Way, purring the words: "I'm not much to look at, nothin' to see." "Oh, Frankie, yes you are!" wailed the audience. The song over, Sinatra started to leave the stage. "Don't go!" whimpered the little girls. He gave them an encore, mooned: "The mate that fate had me created for." Thereupon a delegation of them rose, whinnying: "Here I am, Frankie!" "Frankie, look at me!" The band had to play the Star-Spangled Banner...
Miss Gilbert is making her stage debut; she should do well. He poise is not quite all there, she tends to awkwardness, but her voice is good, her sense of simple dramatics is fair, and she is a pretty girl...
Died. Bayard Veiller, 74, mystery dramatist (Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair, The Trial of Mary Dugan) ; in Manhattan. Veiller left college for a newspaper job, wrote Within the Law in 1911, sold it outright for $3,750, saw it make $500,000 on the stage...