Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reunion in New York would be better were its performers less wistful about their homeland. In spite of a girl who wails that she wants Artie Shaw, and not Johann Strauss, the group does quite a bit of gulping for the Wiener Wald. It's understandable; but on stage, as off, a little heartbreak goes a long...
Leaders of the musicians' union here and in New York threatened to stage walkouts on the Pudding, if it hired a non-union orchestra. Brown explained that he could not afford to anger the unions since the Crimsonians intend to join the musicians' local here and to enter the commercial jazz field this spring...
...Actor Massey applied his stage nose & wart (a half-hour operation) during the afternoon, appeared at the Chicago Civic Opera House (before an invited broadcast audience of 2,500) in black tie, was at the microphones for almost the full half-hour. At the finish, although he gave the best Lincoln the radio has heard, he took no curtain calls but darted out the stage door, piled into a police car, was sped five blocks to the Grand Opera House and the curtain-rising of Abe Lincoln in Illinois in nothing flat...
...realistic piece, The Battle of Trenton consisted of a collection of little movements, each depicting a stage in the battle. One of them was built around the tune Yankee Doodle. Each had a subtitle: Attack-Cannons-Bomb. Defeat of the Hessians - General Confusion -Articles of Capitulation Signed-Grief of Americans for the loss of their companions killed in the engagement. Trumpets of Victory-General Rejoicing...
...Ulon's powerful Varsity mermen hit the read this afternoon, bound for Annapolis and Philadelphia in quest of their third and fourth league victories, against Navy and Pennsylvania respectively. This week's contests will set the stage for the all-important H--Y--P clashes later in the schedule, settling first, second, and third positions in the final league standings...