Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland events followed the now-familiar Willkie pattern: terrific buildup, hysterical ovation, a solid, sound, sensible but not stirring speech. Crowds were huge, friendly, happy, excited. To the Public Auditorium they came, to sit with the stage partitions opened up, so that two enormous audiences faced each other across a great divide...
ROME--Sharp warnings to Jugoslavia to swing into line with the Rome-Berlin Axis were issued today as Premier Benito Mussolini watched his troops stage a sham battle with Jive shells close to the Jugoslav frontier...
...smashing successes in two years is the record Buddy DeSylva has compiled on the musical comedy stage. First, in "Stars in Your Eyes," he had the irrepressible combination of Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante to put across some of Cole Porter's best songs. Last year Bert Lahr's contortions replaced Durante's wheezings and the resultant "DuBarry Was a Lady" was as much a hit as its predecessor. And now the Shubert stage has DeSylva's latest offering, with Miss Merman the lone star, surrounded by a cordon of well-known and capable performers drawn from the stage, screen...
...only is it Miss George's evening from curtain to curtain, but the supporting cast, with the exception of Alan Napier, have a bad habit of being rather commonplace people whom we have seen too often on the stage before. The comedy of "Lady In Waiting" has far less to do with Margery Sharp than with Miss George for its author deals in situations rather than barbed lines. And it is these situations where Gladys George takes over and makes us eat out of her hand. She can be coy and bawdy in one breath, charming and hussyish in another...
...guns for the last. George M. Cohan sang his Give My Regards to Broadway, his Yankee Doodle Boy, his Grand Old Flag. Then a dark little man, introduced by Mr. Buck as "the nearest thing to a genius we have in this country," walked to the centre of the stage. As Irving Berlin began singing, the audience rose, joined in the music by the hundreds, then the thousands, until 15,000 voices were swelling God Bless America, an ASCAP song...