Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself, who is the show, the whole show, and a perfect fool in the process. On the radio he may be pretty bad, but on the boards he has the charm of Mickey Rooney, and ordinary people can only wonder how a man can stand, practically alone, on a stage for three hours, talking and waving his arms feebly, and never letting his audience down for an uninterrupted breath...
There are parts that drag, but not too many, considering the fact that all musical revues are fated to bore some people some of the time. In these times of stress, too, Ed Wynn usually wanders on the stage of his friend, Mr. Shubert, and saves the act with an ice-cream oil slicker or his eyebrows. Eleanor Roosevelt is sure to like...
Call to Arms. Stage-wise Almazánistas picked up their lines. While Government forces hunted its secret meeting place, the rump Congress whipped out a manifesto of its own. Reiterating Almazán's charges of Communism, it thought up some new angles, accused the Government's PRM (Party of the Mexican Revolution) of 12,000 political murders, among other crimes, concluded with a call to arms against Cárdenas...
...last six years the nearest thing to super-stupendous on the air has been the Lux Radio Theatre. Its casts have included all varieties of cinema hotshots. Its productions have often been so lavish that they overflowed the stage of CBS's Music Box Theatre in Hollywood. Even its rehearsals are a Hollywood event, with autograph seekers pounding at the doors. This week, after its usual summer pause, Lux Radio Theatre begins a new season with Myrna Loy and William Powell in the aerial version of Manhattan Melodrama...
When she began writing, her mother-in-law insisted, "I no believe the womens can write. If all were known, you find the mens write those books for them." Gertrude Atherton spent the next half-century defying the mens and her mother-in-law. Literature, like the stage, was a low, unladylike profession. Her first novel was the scandal of California society in 1892. She was probably the first refined U. S. female to smoke a cigaret in public: women fainted, men boiled, editors sizzled, preachers raged...