Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage was the brilliantly lit, richly appointed state dining room. Tuxedoed Secret Service men stood on guard, colored waiters came & went, a homely beer barrel was cunningly concealed in a feathery bank of fern. (Cheese & crackers went with the beer.) At the room's south entrance the President sat in a big red leather chair, the famed ivory cigaret holder tilted audaciously, the famed charm sparkling and bubbling like champagne. So seductively supercharged was the Roosevelt manner that it shocked one of his guests to a state of real alarm. Said Nebraska's dapper freshman Senator Kenneth...
...thing was plain. From now on, Newton should be allowed to supervise the sessions. There was a bad moment when the M. C. walked off the stage to look for Hawkins and Brown so that all could jam the final number together. Frankie saved the day by just tootling a few notes, and before you knew it, everyone was going full blast. At the conclusion, he got up and started walking off the stage, playing all the time, and everyone followed. It was tremendously effective...
Last week's high point came before 20,000 people, jampacked into New York's Madison Square Garden. Behind her on the crowded stage spread a vast grey-blue cloth backdrop, on which was emblazoned a huge red Chinese ideograph meaning victory. In a long black dress, gold-trimmed, wearing green earrings, black gloves, she looked more like next month's Vogue than the avenging angel of 422,000,000 people...
...other designated Member, who announces the King's wish that another Speaker be appointed. Two M.P.s propose and second a man agreed upon by Tories and Laborites. The new Speaker formally "protests his unworthiness," is then elected and conducted to the seat of Commons' authority. At this stage he wears a bobbed wig. The King is asked to approve the choice. When he does (in practice, he must), the Speaker may don a long, full-bottomed wig. Then, and then only, the House is constitutionally complete and able to proceed with Britain's business...
...only really likable characters in Wagnerian opera are old men. While the youthful Siegfrieds, Tristans and Tannhausers are all muscle-on the stage, mostly stomach-and ego, their elders (Wotan, Hans Sachs, Kurwenal, et al.) are mostly kindhearted, responsible, possessed of human failings and a regard for social obligations. For 20 years at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera these benign Wagnerian oldsters have been impersonated by the outstanding Wagnerian baritone of his generation, stocky, bald-headed Friedrich Schorr. Last week, before a packed house that rose to its feet and cheered, Friedrich Schorr sang Wotan for the last time...