Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles: War came first like the unexpected lifting of the curtain before the stage is set. Now, in the pitch dark, it is here in earnest....Volunteers for every service in sight-Army, Navy, Marines, State Guard, Auxiliary Police and Firemen, Air-Raid Warning, Ambulance Service....Days of uncertainty, rumors, and a widespread sense of frustration....Telephone lines clogged with a rush of calls....More than 100 Japanese produce firms closed...
...acting is compelling--no finer cast could have been assembled, particularly in the choice of the six girls, all of whom excel in the shrewdly and sympathetically drawn characters. The play, though, belongs to Grete Mosheim. To the role of Erna, her first appearance on the American stage, she brings a magnificent technique, an exciting individuality, a warmth and depth unexcelled, and gives the most merorable performance of the year...
Successful plays aren't often transformed into successful motion pictures without a somewhat drastic application of the "movie technique." An exception was "Night Must Fall," which three or four years ago was lifted almost bodily from the stage to the screen, and was equally effective in its new medium. Following closely in this tradition is "Ladies in Retirement," last year's number one Broadway mystery drama, and one of this season's first-rate cinema thrillers...
...fast-moving, hard-hitting team whose job is to go out and hunt tanks, not wait for them in passive defense. Brought to its most efficient peak in the Carolina maneuvers by First Army's wily Lieut. General Hugh Drum, the TD Battalion is already beyond the paper stage. The Army announced that 52 of the battalions had started organization and training, that it was abandoning its more static Tank Defense groups...
...especial appeal is made to undergraduates in Harvard College not to abuse the present system, which is still in the experimental stage. The information which is available indicates that while there seems to have been no serious general abuse of the system during the last few years, there is considerable uncertainty and uneasiness as to the workings of the plan and there is evidence that some students have misused their freedom regarding attendance. If abuse continues, the only recourse be to establish some plan of registration for all students not entitled to the privileges of the Dean's List...