Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is one redeeming feature to the whole thing. It is nondescript Jeeter Lester, buffoonish his way across the drab stage with the abandon of a loosed chimpanzee, using all the tricks of the accomplished mugger, stealing every scene, cussing, spitting, pinching and generally acting as if he enjoyed every minute of his poverty. It seems as though James Barton is almost too good a comedian, for his "heavy" scenes misfire, with the audience waiting in vain for a flow of damns or hells...
...Priest and Others. Many of the sights and weapons were in the secret stage, but among the barely mentionables were...
...whirling in opposite directions) have withstood terrific tests, proved they will pay dividends on craft flying more than 350 m.p.h., help provide a better plane for maneuvering and accurate firing. >The Sikorsky-developed helicopter, with horizontally rotating blades overhead and small vertical blades on the tail, has reached the stage where its designer prophesies great value as an anti-submarine device, in liaison work and sea rescues. It can hang stationary in the air, fly backward, drop vertically, land on a dime. >The batlike Flying Wing, with fuselage and wings molded into a single, obtuse-angled wing...
...night in 1938 Tunesmiths Raye and De Paul spent an evening at Manhattan's Famous Door cabaret listening to Count Basie's band. "Jeez!" remarked Tunesmith Raye as Jimmy Rushing trucked onto the stage for his number, "that guy's just about five by five." "That," said Tunesmith De Paul, "is an idea for a song." By the time the evening was over, Raye and De Paul had written the song out complete-on a paper napkin. Four years later Mister Five By Five, plugged to popularity by Bandleader Freddie Slack...
Mashenka the Russian, is going to see the Navy, but it was a hard fight. Invited to give a performance of their successful play for the officers and men of the Naval Construction Camp at Davisville, Rhode Island, the company and crew will hit the stage there at 8 o'clock Sunday night. But it was a long fight...