Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Approved his Inaugural Committee's selection of Music Czar James Caesar Petrillo to put together and direct a mammoth three-hour Inaugural Eve show in Washington featuring movie, stage and radio stars, bands, opera singers and a symphony orchestra...
...separate the facts from the legends about Tallulah proved in many instances to be virtually impossible, although Bernstein and Miss Sulzberger interviewed dozens of producers, stage managers, actors, writers, etc., and TIME correspondents throughout the U.S. and Europe talked to scores of her friends, enemies, and theatrical associates. It became quite clear that her friends regard Tallulah as an institution. They were frank, fair and helpful, and they did their best to augment the Bankhead legend. For example, her sister Eugenia, in discussing Tallulah's disputed age, is said to have said: "Every time Tallulah takes off a year...
Gloomily aware of the failure of other young comedians (e.g., Danny Thomas, Jack Paar, Henry Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest...
When the curtain went up, the stage was bare, except for a few pieces of scenery with their brown canvas backs to the audience. The dancers appeared from the wings in their practice clothes: men in dark overalls, girls in black bathing suits. They began to move and gesture. Someone backstage dropped his tools with a loud clatter. In the audience, a small voice asked "Maman, where is the music...
...King's doctors believe they have caught the illness at an early stage. He is up & around Buckingham Palace every day, limping slightly but not using a cane or crutch; usually he rests his foot on a pillow while working. Main medical treatment is described as an electric apparatus (which stimulates circulation), fitted around the thigh. Other possible treatments: rest in bed if there is pain; hot & cold baths; heat; drugs that dilate the arteries; a nerve-cutting operation...