Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then she threw the Civic Theatre's name off the billing. During rehearsals she got pretty upstage, held long confabs with Piscator in shrill-voiced German, while the cast stood around wondering whether it was stage business or themselves she was talking about. She was finally asked to speak English, complied...
This week, before an opening-night audience glittering with Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Senators, Washington Society folk, Actress Rainer made her U. S. stage debut. Her role was the fattest and most formidable, for a woman, in the modern repertory-one which had taxed Dame Sybil Thorndike, Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell. It overtaxed Actress Rainer. Frail and flowerlike, her straight dark hair falling about her face, she was the most appealing of all Saint Joans, and the feeblest...
Biologists Edwin Eustace Reinke and Claude Simpson Chadwick of Vanderbilt University and the Highlands (N.C.) Biological Laboratory nabbed some North Carolina specimens of T. viridescens in the immature red eft stage and implanted bits of adult pituitary gland in their muscles. Within six days the newts went into the water and assumed the adult body color and tail shape. Thus it seemed that the pituitary provided not only the necessary physiological changes for aquatic life but also the "water drive" or impulse to seek water...
...grey-haired veterans switch their diamond-studded long-service pins from their overalls to the lapels of their best blue suits. The companies that make machine tools are as individualistic as their workmen. Most of them started as small family enterprises, and have not far outgrown that stage. Because of their independence, no man can say with certainty what machine tools' backlog is. Even the Department of Commerce last week had to content itself by saying that, like the aircraft industry, machine tools' business had resisted the declining trend during the first two months...
Died. Maxine Elliott, 69, stage beauty; of a heart ailment; in Juan-les-Pins, France...