Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month union troubles threatened to kill American Jubilee off, but were finally ironed out. When the Fair opened last week, American Jubilee opened with it. Supercolossal it is: on a 300-ft. outdoor stage, in a blinding light, over 300 people march, waltz, sing, clown, wave flags, ride horseback, bicycles, automobiles, to the crashing of a tremendous band. Washington is inaugurated, Jenny Lind warbles, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, Lillian Russell & Diamond Jim Brady roll up to Rector's in a victoria, T. R. leads his Rough Riders, and in a stand-up-and-cheer finale...
...monster bicycle ballet; best of its Arthur Schwartz tunes is Jenny Lind's melting How Can I Ever Be Alone?; most atmospheric thing are its sets, reproducing such bygones as Federal Hall, Barnum's Museum, the old Astor House. On opening night wind & rain turned the stage into a Great Wet Way, drenched hundreds of bright costumes, ripped Lillian Russell's magnificent white-plumed hat right off her pretty head...
After the symposium the old guard will retire to the Harvard Club of New York to be entertained by celebrities of the stage and screen. The manual suggests for occasions like this the rule: "If you're on the wagon, lean...
...finally happened. The very thing we've dreaded so long. A turtle lives two hundred years, a man three score and ten, but a child star is a very fragile bundle--so Shirley has retired, at the advanced age of eleven, to leave the stage to her less weary successors...
...Tabled a motion to put the Nazi swastika on the stage with flags of other nations whose delegates had been prevented from attending...