Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies faced a new and probably the bloodiest stage of all in North Africa...
Five decades had brought to it almost every great theater figure from Ellen Terry to Helen Hayes. On its stage Sarah Bernhardt played in Camille, Olga Nethersole in Carmen, Mrs. Fiske in A Doll's House, Julia Marlowe in When Knighthood Was in Flower, William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes, Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street...
...last week's birthday Manhattan's famous Players Club took over the house. After the performance of Life With Father the audience stayed for an even more nostalgic show. Still dressed as Father, Howard Lindsay brought on the stage such Empire-builders as Billie Burke, Lady Mendl, Ruth Gordon, Ilka Chase, Gilbert Miller; and from among the playgoers, the Wendell Willkies...
...episodic and spotty as reported. Yet, confronted with over two solid (in more than one respect) hours of Ellingtonia, I can only report that Duke lived up to and confirmed all but the very highest expectations. If "B B and B" did not successfully bring jazz to the concert stage, it did not deny the existence of Ellington's genius...
Aside from the magnificent sartorial spectacle which the Ellington band provides on any stage, Duke in 20 years has made practically no concessions to public taste. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1899. His father, a retired Navy Yard blueprint worker, was comparatively well off. The Ellington family owned its own home and even an auto with a bulb horn. Ellington was given piano lessons at the age of six but went through high school expecting to be a painter...