Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second incident occurred a little later when four Harvard students spent a day and a night in an igloo in Leverett House courtyard in an effort to "stage a sit-down strike until Russia withdraws from the Karelian Isthmus or the snow melts...
...stage of Carnegie Hall tripped demure, blonde Ellen Berg,11. In a soprano that was emotionless, usually hall-size, usually on pitch, she sang an air from Mozart's Magic Flute. Sophisticated kids and mammas gave each other sidelong looks when Conductor Rudolph Ganz announced that Ellen Berg would next sing the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor. On that glassy surface, double-runners are not allowed. Coloratura Berg sailed out cleanly, figure-eighted through her trills, skidded a couple of times into her flute accompanist, ducked low to coast into her final note an octave below the conventional...
Married (for 50 years). Al Shean, 72, Bowery-voiced comic favorite in the old-time vaudeville team of (Positively) Mr. Gallagher and (Absolutely) Mr. Shean, uncle of the Marx Brothers; and Mrs. Johanna Shean, 70; celebrated in Manhattan a week after Comedian Shean observed his 60th year on the stage...
...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 some one rented the stage for an exhibition of live Indians. Pentland's Circus and then a group of Chinese jugglers followed. During this transition period touring features such as Zavitowski's Juvenile Ballet still played the Athenaeum. By 1868, though, only cheap variety shows appeared; and the name of "Old Howard," already in common use, was officially adopted...
...being checked, and the ornate walls are going to be repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few few above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knock-out punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus anyhow, It's the blue...