Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...account has been taken of the crack-up stage in German morale, inevitable in an air offensive of great magnitude. In any consideration of this point it must be borne in mind that...
Married. Stripteuse Rose Louise Hovick ("Gypsy Rose Lee"), woman of letters (The G-String Murders); and Actor Alexander Kirkland, stage uncle of Junior Miss; he for the first time, she for the second (her first was Robert Mizzy, dental supplier); at midnight in her home at Highland Mills, N.Y. Best man was high-domed Pulitzer Prizewinning Littérateur Carl Van Doren. Gypsy, in a black crepe dress, black shoes & stockings, wore real grapes in her hair. Man & wife went off on a honeymoon "as far as our gas will hold...
This is the case with the Brattle Hall presentation with three notable exceptions. The lovable Grandpa Vanderhof is played by one of stage and screen's great character actors, Fred Stone, whose acting is a fine example of comic technique. He has all the timing, presence, and quaint mannerisms that are required to bring such a role to life, and his performance is one that should not be missed. He is best supported by his daughter, Paula, and by Nancy Duncan, who play his grand-daughter and daughter respectively. Nancy Duncan again shows her versatility as an actress...
...felt in their bones that the indecisive sparring on the Egyptian front had gone on long enough. They sensed, too, the fact that the war in North Africa had reached a curious and explosive stage, where each side had everything to lose, and nothing to gain, by waiting for the other to strike. It was this feeling, a kind of intestinal divination, that made men everywhere listen for the guns...
...Averell Harriman, representing President Roosevelt, sat in on the conferences with instructions that Roosevelt would be in agreement with "all decisions taken here by Mr. Churchill." Whether there were any decisions remains to be seen. But if there were differences of opinion they were covered over afterward in a stage banquet in the Kremlin's huge and somber Catherine Hall...