Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coarse characters, crude action, and real-to-life plot made it a sociology text as well as a novel. It was a chunky, earthy portrayal of actual conditions on Georgia tenant farms by a writer whose pen had the realistic flair of Rembrandt's paintbrush. Adapted for the stage in 1933 "Tobacco Road" broke all records for longevity and attendance. Its dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social conscience as well as the funny-bone. After seven years of audience accolades, reviewers...
Puppeteer Wolff now has over 200 13-inch troupers, with wooden heads made from stock male & female models: only a wig and a beard differentiate Mephistopheles from the clown in Pagliacci. The puppets are worked not by strings from above but by rods from below stage. There a crew of five (headed by Mr. Wolff's plump, Czech-born mother), seated on rolling stools, scuttle about like water bugs. In the triumphal scene in Aïda they have 75 puppets to handle. Mrs. Wolff designed the costumes, sometimes copying the Met's. Settings, too, are modeled after...
...material continuum. ... But the long history [of the psychical component] has not been a continuous one. It has been a succession of brief discontinuities. ... At the beginning of each successive generation of the energy-system, the psyche lapsed, only to appear after that physical system had reached a certain stage. For a time in each generation the individual ... has no demonstrable mental component...
...moderns. As Luxembourg to its Louvre, Washington has plans for another museum, the Smithsonian Gallery of Art. The competition for the Gallery's design was won two years ago by famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen and associates. But, so far, the Smithsonian Gallery is still in the planning stage...
Married. Alan Anderson, 22, son of Playwright Maxwell Anderson, and stage manager for the current Broadway production The Talley Method; and Nancy Swan, 21, Barnard College junior; in Manhattan...