Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handwriting on the wall. Germany went into this war under two false assumptions: 1) that the western democracies are too decadent and spiritless to defend themselves no matter what humiliations and demands will be put to them; and 2) that the British Empire is already in a greatly advanced stage of disintegration and ready to fall apart with the first real demand made upon its unity...
Last week as Moscow nights lasted from three in the afternoon until nine the next morning, Russia's capital decided to stage a blackout. It was a strikeout. Because of a textile shortage, nine out of ten Moscow families were without curtains heavy enough to muffle light. Because of a paper shortage, they could not paper their windows. Because of a shortage of blue light bulbs, the officially urged alternative of carrying on life under half light was also impracticable. Only thoroughgoing defense, if Moscow should suddenly be subjected to an air raid: the first move of revolution-shut...
Jean de Reszke was preserved, nevertheless. While he sang his Tristans and Romeos on the Metropolitan Opera House stage, the Metropolitan's librarian, Lionel Mapleson, had been experimenting with a flimsy Edison cylinder machine, making squeaky little records for his own amusement. When he was through he had samples of most of the Metropolitan's glittering voices on wax cylinders, neatly filed and labeled...
...streamlined harmonica so big that a normal man couldn't get his mouth around it, Nat Karson headed straight for Broadway. Now it keeps him as busy as brokers ever did. In the past five years he has done sets for 35 Broadway productions. Near tops in Broadway stage painting last season was Nat Karson's rapid-fire blend of Negro jazz and Japanese formalism in the sets of the Hot Mikado. His latest, Let's Go, opened last week at the International Casino, on the same night his Rialto murals were unveiled. But these are only...
...intervals, Nat Karson designs a new show for the Radio City Music Hall. On Monday he makes his rough sketches, on Tuesday helps daub the sets for the Music Hall stage (world's biggest), where a line that looks threadlike to the audience may be six inches wide. Wednesday there is an early-morning rehearsal. After the Hall closes at midnight, the scenery is hung and lighting effects tried, followed by a dress rehearsal, with the full Rockette chorus, until the doors open at 10:30 Thursday morning. "How often I want to call Mr. Roosevelt," sighs Nat Karson...