Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike much contemporary theatre, the structure, scenery, and characters are simple. But also unlike much contemporary theatre, the audience understands the people on stage. This combination of Morris Carnovsky and Sholom Aleichem should not be missed...
...First Symphony proved to be a broadly melodic crowd-rouser, and Amirov's Kyurdi-Ovshari Mugami was so heavily coated with schmalzy melody that one listener cracked: "The triumph of the proletariat on Bald Mountain." Nevertheless, the audience shouted its approval, while the Russians, standing on the stage, applauded the spectators in return. "For Symphony Hall," said the radio announcer in the control booth, "it's a rather wild scene." Said Cellist Mayes: "Musicians are the same the world over; one's as crazy as the other...
...friendly pint of stout with his opponents after the game ("Something we unfortunately don't have in American football"), Dawkins had no illusions that he had yet nailed down a berth on the Oxford team that will play Cambridge. Said he modestly: "I am just getting past the stage where I'm getting used to the rules...
Born. To Anne Jeffreys, 36, singing actress of films, stage and TV, and Actor Robert Sterling. 42, both of TV's Topper series: their third child, third son; in Burbank, Calif. Name: Tyler Marcus. Weight...
Died. Lupino Lane, 67, Briton who produced, directed and starred in Me and My Girl, the show that introduced the Lambeth Walk (and ran at London's Victoria Palace for 1,646 performances beginning in 1937), member of one of the best-known families of the British stage; following a heart attack; in London...