Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting into the swing of the new season with a minimum of jerkiness and no sign of stiffness in the joints. There is evidence of much pre-season conditioning and careful planing. "George Washington Slept Here" is ideal for adaptation to the intimacy and informality of the summer stage, and the cast takes full advantage of the situation...
This ends a definite stage of the war as now all the rice, salt, oil and tin are in Japanese hands, and what remains of Burma will make it difficult to support large armies and the hordes of helpless refugees streaming northward. The plane is going...
...stage set was a homely scene: a shabby pine-board house, the decrepit tonneau of a model T. The hero was a cow hand; the heroine, a girl who dreamed of beauty parlors and city lights; the villain, her brother-a jazzing, hitchhiking kid home from the "Aggies." The music had no arias, but many a songful moment, underlined the action as plain people led simple lives, touched with bucolic dignity and rural nobility. Listed as a "music-play," A Tree on the Plains could well have been called folk opera...
...good radio director must be able to handle actors, sound and music for the creation of a single well-knit performance. His work is done fast, without benefit of retakes or tryouts on the road. He possesses talents easily comparable to those of much more greatly publicized stage and screen directors...
Miss Barthelmess' only previous exposure to Harvard came last winter when she was appearing in Boston in "Letters to Lucerne." She was beleaguered backstage and whisked off by some Crimson stage-door johnnies to a round of cocktail parties in "some one of your Houses...