Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, if the writer of "Smoked Ham" will look back over the plays preformed by the Club during the past five years, I warrant that he will note nothing trashy about ninety per cent of them. They were plays that could not have been seen on the commercial stage and were worth the seeing...
...theatre, Harvard, the cradle of college dramatics, being almost the only university in America that does not possess today a modern theatre or theatre-auditorium. Be that as it may, it is most discouraging to act to blocks of empty seats, and yet the Club has courageously continued to stage plays from the pockets of its members through sheer love of the theatre. It cannot long survive, however, without more student support. W. B. Van Leannp...
...enumeration of the laugh-provoking devices employed in "Sons 'o Fun" would be pointless; suffice it to say that they are all patterned after the successful, senseless, "all the theatre's the stage and every customer an actor" technique of "Helzapoppin." The only major deviation from the master plan in tone and substance is the addition of Carmen Miranda to the capitalized names of Olsen and Johnson. Perhaps this will be remedied to some extent if Carmen is given a little more time and another number or two like "Thanks North America"; but whether this is done or not, "Sons...
...renting it out to the Orchestra, the owners had neglected to inform the hall's former occupants of the change. Since these former occupants were prize-fighters who used the balconies for workouts, and were in the habit of carrying some of their more battered compatriots across the stage to the dressing-rooms, no little trouble ensued. A collective sigh of relief followed the purchase in 1900 of Symphony Hall, the Orchestra's present home...
...Tupper's second study-of Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, et al.-is still in the we-ought-to-have-one stage...