Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marx Brothers bouncing around on one stage, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy trilling to one another near by. Warner Brothers pigeonholed their artistic aspirations by canceling Paul Muni's contract, concentrating on such slam-bang hell-raisers as Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield...
While rumors flew about stage, radio and movie offers, Mrs. Temple quietly explained: "Shirley will definitely not retire. She's more interested than ever in her dancing, and I'm sure we'll do at least one picture a year. However, I want Shirley to have the opportunity to get a normal schooling, so we won't make any plans which will keep her as busy as she has been in the past." One rumor-that smart little Producer Joseph Pasternak would team her with Fred Astaire-exploded last week, although Shirley...
...regular program (which, significantly, was devoted entirely to the works of that most Ger man of the Germans, Richard Wagner), Sir Henry led the audience in community singing; then members of the orchestra did solos until they ran out of numbers; finally musicians from the audience took over the stage. Among those who stayed on was that inveterate concertgoer Ambassador Joe Kennedy. The 3,000 who straggled home just before dawn were satisfied that two bob had never bought so much good music...
...removing corns by injection. They inject solutions of a bismuth compound or salt water or even sterile water around the margin of the corn, thus choking off the tiny blood vessels which feed it. After several injections, the corn dissolves. This treatment, they cautioned, is still in an experimental stage...
Recently a group of cinema luminaries burst forth in Noel Coward's nine-play cycle Tonight at 8:30 right in Los Angeles' El Capitan Theatre. Suddenly the stage became as popular in Hollywood as pinko politics used to be. Three weeks ago, amid a bright glare of flash bulbs, the Coward cycle reached its climax, with Noel himself in the audience. Bedazzling was the throng that welcomed him. Even the reclusive Garbo was there, escorted by her dietitian Dr. Gayelord Hauser, who puts as much faith in vegetable juice as Popeye puts in spinach...