Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood's most diligent and lavish hostesses...
Playwright Shaw's (Bury the Dead, The Gentle People) story of Everyboy is far too familiar to yield large stage dividends; simply told, however, it might have possessed warmth and humanity. But besides fancying it up as a constantly interrupted dream, Shaw has put frills on the dialogue, lace pants on the sentiments, and- for extra tone - he tosses in comments on Beethoven, Brahms, Renoir and Keats. Finally, even the point of Sons and Sol diers is feeble: for a real mother to affirm life after having lived it would mean something; but a young girl's affirmation...
...Logical action is only a bit player on the political stage. > The chief players are the elite and the non-elite-the Lions (plus the Foxes) and the Rabbits. > The majority are incapable of self-rule. > The object of every elite is to maintain its power...
...Manhattan she arrives every morning at 10:30 at the studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time for a cup of tea and a cat nap, she is in her dressing room two hours before curtain time. By the time her performance is over, Markova is ready...
...patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History of the Westward Movement), Ada Comstock, Dean Sperry, the Master of Kirkland House, and Mike of Mike's Club (with portable dispensary) would be there for obvious reasons. You might even come across...