Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Instead of casting a familiar Hollywood face in the role of Young (Spencer Tracy was considered, then rejected because of his frequent appearances as a Catholic priest), Zanuck "discovered" Dean Jagger, an able veteran of the Broadway stage, whose cinema appearances have been sporadic and inconspicuous. Jagger brings to his cumbersome, lengthy part such convincing dignity as to relegate to comparative minority the conventional romantic activity of Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell, two harassed lovers who string along on the westward trek...
Sitting stiffly behind the President on the stage during his speech, Penn's faculty kept its dignity, applauded only politely...
Sixty-seven years ago, when the National Rifle Association held its first tournament, sportsmen ran the show. But in 1903, when Congress recognized the N. R. A. and appropriated funds to help stage a bigger, broader tournament, the national rifle and pistol matches became the War Department's baby. Today, through the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the War Department spends $500,000 a year to conduct the Camp Perry matches-sending to the tournament, in addition to picked marksmen from each branch of the service, civilian and National Guard teams representing each State...
Science, medicine, education, social study, the arts, the humanities, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt took their turns on the stage last week in Philadelphia as the University of Pennsylvania celebrated its 200th birthday (see p. 43). High lights in science...
...inconspicuous as an extra's check, the new 20th Century Silenced Camera purred away on a Hollywood sound stage last week in its first big-time assignment. Gesticulating in front of its highly sensitive lenses were such precious cinema properties as Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie, but 20th Century-Fox accountants in back offices well knew the unpublicized camera might prove to be the most valuable asset...