Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repertory plays would be produced one by one and repeated at intervals until all the group of plays were available and could be rotated in performance from week to week. The plays selected would cover a wide range, from popular Kaufman-Hart comedies to the more serious landmarks in stage history, bringing to the audience in one season a broad sweep of theatrical progress...
...Dave Belasco, who was responsible for most of the platitude and superficiality that haunts the American theatre to this day, had a very apt pupil in Cecil B. DeMille. The satellite moved to Hollywood to prove that any extravaganza the master had put over on the stage could be made twice as gaudy and twice as profitable on the screen. DeMille succeeded--time and again--and his latest nightmare, mercilessly entitled "Reap the Wild Wind," is now in its second week...
...endured is over at long last; "All's Fair," the new Dwight Deere Wiman musical comedy, has hove into town. If you're interested, the title is taken from the old saw about "All's fair in love and war." And certainly the doings on the Shubert stage are equitable enough. It's a definite pleasure to report that the show is a sharp buy. All the attributes of a top musical are embodied in the book and score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart...
From the private college, the nation expanded to include the state university in its trend toward the ultimate goal of universal higher education. With the war, American colleges are entering upon a third stage which may finally guarantee equal opportunity for all. Government subsidy of higher learning is essential to victory, and thoughtful planning can make such subsidy a potent weapon in a democratic post-war world...
...supporting cast. Jack Sheehan, Allan Tower, Louise Kanasireff, and actor-director Robert Perry match her with professional experience and smoothness. Also, there is the usual and pleasant sprinkling of handsome young actors and beautiful young actresses that have come to be a welcome characteristic of the summer stage. Of the latter category, Richard Barthelmess' daughter Mary is unquestionably the most beautiful and the most pleasant. A great deal of credit also goes to pinch-hitter Jolyon Baker for his playing of the nephew-in-everybody'shair, which he learned in the afternoon before the opening. Except for an occasional drag...