Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Under Construction" in loose naval lingo means variously that new ships are: 1) in the prefabrication stage (when parts are being designed, ordered, made); 2) actually being built in shipyards; 3) in fitting-out basins, where newly launched hulls are armored and equipped. By last month the U. S. Navy could say that it had thus under construction an additional, enormous fleet, to be completed in the following yearly quotas...
...Tanglewood he brought Composers Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith to teach composition; G. Wallace Woodworth, Chairman of Harvard University's Department of Music, for choral instruction; Herbert Graf, Metropolitan Opera Stage Director, to teach opera dramatics; New York Times Music Editor Olin Downes, Composer Roy Harris, and many another to lecture. By last week the month-old centre, with its 300-odd students, had worked its creator up into a well-turned ecstasy. Said Koussevitzky: "How can I speak of something part of myself, so much of my heart, a cherished ideal? It's like my child...
...despite his sundry deficiencies, had done a standout job, one of his harshest critics (Columnist Hugh Johnson) admitted last week. That Louis Johnson's new boss, Republican Secretary Henry Lewis Stimson, should not want to keep an ambitious, embittered assistant was understandable. That the President at such a stage of Defense (see p. 17) should have tossed out the one War Department executive who knew most about the job was not so understandable...
Star of the revival was shovel-mouthed, small-voiced Joe E. (for Evan) Brown, who has played the role before, both on the stage and in the movies, is a plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast...
With this letter a month ago, the National Theatre Conference began to prepare to entertain the troops. A kind of holding company for the non-Broadway stage, the National Theatre Conference is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, has its roots in every high school, university and community theatre in the country. Having brooded long over the haphazard entertainment that was dished up to the doughboys in World War I, the directors of the Conference are getting set for future...