Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most infant prodigies are unusually terrible children who have an unusual faculty for aping their elders. Few ever graduate from the ape stage. Few ever hold the concert platform after their apishness has outgrown its disarming garb of knee britches and Dutch cuts. But once or twice in a generation appears a youngster who does his own musical thinking, can hold his own in the company of talented grownups. Such a precocity usually causes a sensation, even among hard-boiled critics...
...sensation there was last week at Manhattan's Town Hall. There, with practically no advance ballyhoo, a slight, dark-eyed, French-Canadian nine-year-old named André Mathieu hurried onto the stage, bowed stiffly, and pounced upon the keyboard of a huge concert grand. The audience applauded with delight at his precociously efficient playing of piano pieces by Chopin, Debussy and Ravel, but what left them wide-eyed with wonder was his musicianly performance of 14 of his own complicated and expert compositions, some of them written when he was only four. None of them was childish. Some...
...Barrymore took his curtain call-his first in Manhattan after 17 prodigal years-an unemployed Hamlet from Brooklyn, in long Hamlet pants, leaped to the stage. After he was hustled off, Barrymore returned to report: "The gentleman who just jumped across the footlights is now being sat upon by the fattest electrician in New York...
Sure enough, into Fefe's Monte Carlo, where John sat sipping with Daughter Diana and Stage Daughter Doris Dudley (who succeeded Elaine in the play), swept Elaine. She sat at a table close to John's. Doris and Diana bristled. When Diana got up to dance, Elaine slipped into Diana's chair. The Monte Carlo crowd cocked eyes, cupped ears for Scene II. "All I want is 24 hours with you." Elaine implored. "I don't want you for keeps, John, but I must have you back for a little while. All I want...
Last week Bell made international aviation news by telling just how fast and how heavily Airacobra could strike. Out of the experimental stage and now plain P-39, it has a speed of 400 miles an hour with full military load. It is the fastest pursuit ship in the U. S. and probably in the world, can leg it a full 20 to 40 miles an hour faster on war missions than Germany's famed Messerschmitt 109 (which had to be stripped of its guns and precariously ''souped up" to set the international speed record...