Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibition of undergraduate and graduate art work at the Signet Society is particularly remarkable for its range; and for its excellence as well. It includes oils, water colors, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, sketches for stage sets, and photographs of sculptors' and architects' efforts. It has Gluyas Williams cartoons, and a sketch by Robert Edmond Jones of a set for Richard III, "Now is the winter of our discontent." Its paintings range from primly conservative New England garden-scenes to John Holabird's gay Mexican pot-pourri...
From the rough pine stage of the post theater at Luke Field, Ariz., the President's wispy little assistant, Lauchlin Currie, who has seen China's war problem at firsthand, read them a personal message from Franklin Roosevelt: "To you, the first group . . . my heartiest congratulations. . . . I am informed that you have acquitted yourself with distinction...
Bowing off stage in a Brooklyn theater, the films' onetime Spirit of Fatigue, Stepin Fetchit, bowed into the waiting arms of two warrant officers. He was booked under his right name, Lincoln Perry, on a paternity charge...
Solomon and Balkis will have its first stage performance later this month, at Harvard's Lowell House...
...knew from experiments in Paramount's and Walt Disney's studios what scientific design could do for acoustics. He went into huddles with NBC Chief Engineer O. B. Hanson. Early in February, NBC's big studio was closed off. Workmen built a slanting roof over the stage, faced the back wall with a marcelled pattern of half columns (technical name: convex diffusers), turned the side walls into a checkerboard of curved sections-all done to encourage resonance...