Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweden's Axel Wenner-Gren has long been one of the most interesting figures on the international stage. His recent activities so greatly interested the U.S. State Department that after he turned up in Mexico last year, the Department blacklisted...
...Stage. In Moscow the visiting diplomatic and military missions were dined and vodkaed at an elaborate dinner in the National Hotel. Toasts went round to "Our Glorious Red Army . . . Our Glorious Allies . . . Our Glorious Leader, Tovarish Stalin." If Churchill and Bullitt were in Moscow, they, too, were toasted. It was no secret that Ambassador Standley whiled away his spare time hitting golf balls against a backyard screen. General Bradley, abed with mild grippe, was unable to attend Thursday's ballet with Brigadier
...perils of opera singing struck again: in an outdoor production of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, Tenor Jan Kiepura spurned Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout so thoroughly that he knocked her cold against the stage floor. Carried off and revived, she finished the show with a banged-up forehead...
Died. Arnold Genthe, 73, famed photographer of the famous, of heart disease, at Lake Candlewood, Conn. Berlin-born, a classical scholar, he took notable pictures of the San Francisco earthquake, many a stage and literary personality. He took the photograph that got Greta Garbo her first U.S. movie contract...
...party Robeson expressed his appreciation of the work done by the members of the cast. He mentioned Miss Webster, the director, who is well known on the stage for her work on Maurice Evans' Hamiet, and Ferrer, who, he said, did a very good job in the part of Iago, as being particularly helpful...