Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these things the stage was being set for events which in the next few weeks may be written in largest headlines. In the mind of the people, as in the mind of the President, the biggest news which may follow the U. S. election was momentarily obscured by the hulking figure of this week's imminent event...
...afternoon last week, on the stage of Washington's Departmental Auditorium, Brigadier General Lewis Elaine Hershey dipped his hairy hand into a brown wastebasket. He plucked out a cobalt-blue capsule, thrust it behind his back. A brunette young woman snatched the capsule, shook out a piece of paper, handed the paper to a blonde. The blonde attached the paper to a white card, passed the card to a male announcer at a microphone. The announcer spoke meaningless words (for practice) into the microphone, handed the card to a Boy Scout. The Boy Scout slipped it to another...
Northeastern managed to stage off Harvard threats in the second quarter, but in the third the Jayvees clicked again when Summers made a beautiful coffin-corner kick. A bad Northeastern return enabled Harvard to take possession on the enemy twenty-yard stripe, and after a series of short plays, Summers scored again and made good his conversion...
...Eliot's verse play the Dramatic club has found an excellent subject for the inauguration of its new four-production-a-year program, which allows of a broader choice and increased opportunity to present works not seen on the conventional and commercialized stage. "The Family Reunion" is a resolution in modern form of the pagan, classical theme of the curse of the Eumenides through the Christian ideas of expiation and purgation. Harry, Lord Monchensey, is fated to bear the curse placed upon his family for the sins of his ancestors. His flight from the three Eumenides who represent the curse...
...seen in the degree to which they have made these demands reasonable for the average audience and have rewarded the attention of the audience. Their remarkable success in so doing reveals much ingenuity, talent and plain hard work. Ingenuity is displayed in the arrangement of the stage and effectiveness of the setting designed by Art Director John Holabird:--a setting of heavy dark drapes of stiff Victorian furniture and antique silver, which adds much to the impressive atmosphere of the production. Talent and hard work alike show in the efforts of the entire cast. Particularly outstanding are Florence Brown...