Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Periodically reprinting the Constitution and leading sermons preached east of the Mississippi, the Transcript specialized in nostalgic essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...
...return engagement, Sally Rand will come to Harvard Tuesday, when she will headline a list of sparkling entertainers from stage, screen, radio, and the professional wrestling ring at the annual Freshman Smoker to be held in Sanders Theatre...
Sally will lecture on the subject, "What the Average College Stage Door Johnny Is Looking For When He Stage Door Johnnies a Burlesque House Stage Door," Another talk on an equally serious subject, "What a Harvard Boy Should Do to Get Sexy?" will be delivered by Margie Hart. This promises to be a very informative and valuable discourse, in view of Miss Hart's recent assertion that Harvard students are no more "interesting" than hyenas...
...their summer wardrobe in the Yard, the Theatre Guild brings a new play by a new writing team. "Theatre," first issue from the literary marriage of Somerset Maugham and Guy Bolton, is handicapped by a plot as unimaginative as its title; but the old theme of the married stage celebrities who separate, have several affairs and reunite, is so literally enlivened with the authors' racy wit, that Bostonians will not hurry to forsake their seats for the beaches...
...truly great actress. The story is not half so deep as this might suggest, but Miss Skinner does manage to add something more substantial than is apparent in the script, and builds it up to an impressive tribute to the theatre in her final exit off the stage and into the aisles...