Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans picked up Colonel Mary Booth near Ostend, in the first stage of their sweep through the Low Countries and France in May 1940. They thought the granddaughter of the Salvation Army's founder was a spy; the Qestapo grilled her for 24 hours. Then she was sent to Germany, to the Petershausen Camp for Civilian Internees in a large public school at Konstanz, the south German city on the shores of the Boden...
...argument that science is insufficient to man's needs and aspirations is to demand more science: "When men assert that the scientific approach is incomplete it is because they have not been willing to follow it to its final conclusion, or because they are mistaking an early stage in its growth for full development...
...life dull, she had posed as a stranded showgirl and landed a job in the Casino's chorus. Four days later she had been upped to "Samoan Love Dancer" (the drummer beat a tomtom while she wiggled in a lei) and stripteaser (blue lights followed her around the stage as she teased off a gown borrowed from Mrs. DeCenzie). By Nov. 28 WAAC authorities had discovered where she was and quietly hauled her back to Fort Des Moines. Last week the news leaked and reporters persuaded the Fort's genial commandant, Colonel John A. Hoag, to part with...
Next day, a few hours before the performance, Soprano Pons was still laid up. Soprano Wilkins managed to assemble a costume out of odds & ends. With the help of Stage Director Desire Defrere, she learned Lakmé's stage business. At 8:30, before a surprised Metropolitan audience, Marie Wilkins walked confidently before the footlights to tackle one of the most difficult coloratura parts in opera. Her singing, unlike the occasion and her own bravery, was not extraordinary. She muffed the high E at the end of the famed Bell Song. But as she trilled her way across...
Unable to attend the Lowell House play for the first time in years, President emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell '77, missed what the Bellboys' press releases claim was the sight of the century, when House Master Elliott Perkins '23, was towed across the stage by shot-putter Jack Bonner '43, dressed in diapers. It was all part of the production, "Lysistrata...