Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest playwright of the past 25 years, decided 500 theatrical people polled by Theatre Arts magazine: Eugene O'Neill. The best cinema writer: Robert Sherwood. The top stage performance of the past quarter-century: Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Running a hairbreadth second: Laurence Olivier in Oedipus. The best cinema performance: Charles Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux. Running second again: Olivier in Henry...
Melchior, who makes more money in such semi-things as Hollywood musicals than he does at the Met, volunteered to stage some of the operas he knows best-Wagner's Tristan tmd Isolde and part of the Ring Cycle ("ones with not too big a chorus")-with his fellow stars pitching in "on a cooperative basis." If the operas went over, he would try some others. And if he couldn't produce them in the Met, he would do it in a Broadway theater...
...many a U.S. city, the wonder was that Seattle's symphony orchestra made such harmony on stage when there was so much caterwauling backstage, in the boxes, and in the business office...
Block That Rumor. Nevertheless, the commentators had to comment (Drew Pearson confidently began a column: "Here is the inside story . . ."). The London Times's diplomatic correspondent wrote (in London) that "The Moscow talks yesterday advanced a stage nearer their conclusion, which cannot now be much longer delayed." The Manchester Guardian's stay-at-home diplomatic correspondent was also pawing the air: "It has been felt in some quarters that the meeting might prove decisive, but there is nothing to show that it did, in fact, produce any results...
...judge" had planned the accident himself, and used his own car to stage it. He had arranged for someone to drive, and for someone else to get hit. He had even sent out an ambulance to pick up the victim. His Honor, Professor Charles W. Joiner of the University of Michigan's law school, thought he had found a perfect way to get a practical lesson into his students' mock courtroom trials...