Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitable end was in sight unless little Generalissimo Weygand could stage a successful counterattack from the south across the Somme east of Amiens. If Weygand could cut through the corridor, the Germans who had pushed to the sea would themselves be isolated. But every day, every hour made stronger the coil of power through which this counterattack must pierce, from Amiens to Cambrai and Valenciennes. Before mounting and launching his attack, Generalissimo Weygand had to reconstruct his battle line on a 175-mile front from Montmédy to the Channel, for the troops whose job it had been...
Schnozzle Durante rushes about the stage much as usual, like a worried tornado; he works harder than any other comedian, except possibly Ed Wynn. He makes a most unorthodox-looking Romeo, whose wooing of Juliet (Ilka Chase) is more like a bombardment than a courtship. In the loudest clothes ever worn by a white man, he cuts loose with a song called A Fugitive from Esquire. As a harassed guide, he attempts to conduct some hooligans through the ''Modernist Room" of the Metropolitan Museum. As a harassed tree surgeon he takes the temperature and sap-pressure...
...addition there will be courses in play production, utilizing the stage facilities of the Hasty Pudding Theatre; the course work includes preparation of an evening of one-act plays for presentation to the summer school...
...Simonson '08, noted New York stage designer, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, of the Yale School of the Drama, and other specialists in this field will hold seminars connected with the summer dramatic courses...
...farm country and the Knights of Labor after the Civil War, two notable fantasies of the future were written. Caesar's Column, by that stanch Populist orator and Baconian, Ignatius Donnelly, depicted the late 20th Century as an extravaganza of what is now called Fascism, only in ancient stage Roman costume. Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, gave readers in 1888 a more plausible picture of a future State Socialism which in technological details at least radio, television, movies was remarkably prophetic...