Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opera House, two hours later, 100 women still besieged the stage door, refusing to believe that he had made his getaway...
...owner of the most expensive U. S. voice, last week in the middle of his annual concert tour, such incidents are workaday. Two years ago in Chicago, when 500 seats were sold on the stage, a female headed Nelson Eddy off, was just about to achieve her ambition of kissing him when she swooned. Since then, Baritone Eddy has barred seats on the stage...
...aria or ensemble piece for the singers. The love avowal of Pelleas & Mélisande ("I love you." "I love you, too.") is sung to a magnificent orchestral silence. The opera therefore demands and gets reverent handling from singers who can look and act poetic on the stage. The first Mélisande, in 1902, was Mary Garden, who was given the role by the director of the Paris Opera Comique, although Debussy had agreed that Maeterlinck's newlywed wife (and longtime mistress), Georgette Leblanc, should have it. Maeterlinck, vexed, publicly hoped that the opera would be a failure...
Gracie Allen's dippiness is a stage prop that accounts for most of Burns & Allen's reported $9,000-a-week radio salary. Off-mike, she is not always so dippy. As a guest on Information Please last summer, she stacked up favorably with the most select experts. On one Screen Guild show she played opposite James Cagney in a serious Irish playlet and did it well. One year U.S.C. psychology students, professing to find considerable sense behind Gracie's nonsense, voted her Hollywood's most intelligent actress...
...dealt too kindly with the theatre of the Nineties: it has dubbed once-famous plays hokum, once-famous players hams. But it has never questioned that in Lily Langtry, Lillian Russell, Maxine Elliott, the Nineties produced some of the most breathtakingly beautiful women ever seen on any stage...