Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educational] psychology." He had come to Fordham in the days of its great mid '30s football teams, had taken a wartime opportunity to halt football altogether, allowed it to return (in 1946) on only a very chastened scale. Said Gannon: "We want to get [it] off the vaudeville stage and . . . back to the campus...
Montreal's Théátre du Gesu was sold out at every performance last week. The darling of the French Canadian theater, an impish comedian named Fridolin (real name: Gratien Gélinas) was on the stage in his new play...
...Herald Tribune Radio Columnist John Crosby, reviewing New York Daily News Columnist Ed Sullivan's television show, crossly asked: "Why is Ed Sullivan on it?" He "wanders out on the stage, his eyes fixed on the ceiling as if imploring the help of God, and begins to talk about 'his very good friends' . . . in show business...
Originally a play, and once before produced as a movie,* the new version of the story resembles a photographed stage show. Most of the action takes place on a single set, and the chief plot development takes place in the gunman's mind. Director Rudolph Maté (famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect...
...Author Davenport, a costume and stage designer, is a first-rate researcher, and her chief sources are the western world's painting and sculpture. Such painters as Bruegel, Hogarth and Carpaccio, who filled their canvases with a crowd of characters and worked in every last detail of period settings, are her richest gold mines...