Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia Lewis might well have showed stage fright, but she didn't. When she stepped on the stage at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell one night last summer, before the Philadelphia Orchestra and Conductor Alexander Smallens, she had never sung with an orchestra. She had not been rehearsed for this concert. She had just been handed an unfamiliar arrangement of two songs from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Someone had stepped on her gown and ripped it. But the chunky, dignified, dark brown Negro soprano let loose a voice for which everyone, including Conductor Smallens, predicted...
...second feature is "The Great Profile," with John Barrymore playing John Barrymore, a pastime which Mr. B. has been indulging in on and off stage for quite some time now. The picture is funny, if you can forget that Barrymore once played Hamlet, and played it magnificently, and if you can forget that he comes from the American theatre's royal family. If you can forget all that, and just take him for a drunken, lecherous, old man with a sense of humor and a flair of exhibitionism, you'll enjoy the picture. But actually, another aristocrat...
...Scott once again in a neat 24.1 clocking, with Don Barker of the Alumni getting a second and Lonnie Stowell of the Varsity a third. Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson got a second and third in the dive behind Rusty Greenhood, (McCutcheon won on a recount Sunday), and the stage was set for the best race of the night. Frannie Powers and Lonnie Stowell finished one-two in a 54.6 century ahead of Scott and Cutler. The Alumni quartet of Barker, Fallon, Scott, and Hutter took the relay in 1:38.2 by a body-length...
...Night at Earl Carroll's (Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...
Confusion reigned as the first fulldress rehearsal of "Too Much Johnson" got under way last night in Sanders Theatre. Bustling belles in brocades and peacock feathers scurried around the stage, followed by strange creatures, among which was a redoubtable Frenchman dressed in a double-breasted frock coat and wearing a Napoleon III moustache...