Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "General Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Military Churchill." Ike calls up his memories of Britain's wartime leader...
...undone book, badly done music, and smashingly done performances by two megatons of the U.S. musical stage, Mary Martin and Robert Preston. The Fourposter, on which this tale of a long-married, much-loving couple is based, is little more than a prop for their talents...
...minute show, tailored to the small stage in the East Room, drew raves, but not nearly so many as Channing's offstage performance. After she had completed a rousing encore, the President gave her a bear hug and a kiss, soon whisked her onto the floor for a fox trot-the first time he has danced in public since his celebrated solo with Imelda Marcos at the Manila Conference. As the rest of the revelers stood aside to watch, L.B.J. smiled gamely, his face all but obscured by the red ostrich-feather hat that covered his Dolly...
...fuzzy and unruly, her nose overlong, her face hollow-cheeked and colorless, and she always emphasized her pallor by slathering on white powder. In an era when the feminine ideal was a dimpled and cushiony Venus, she was skinny as a slat. "An empty carriage pulled up at the stage door and Sarah Bernhardt got out," said one wit. A columnist declared that "she never needed an umbrella-she was thin enough to walk between the drops." Dumas the younger, who knew Sarah well because she appeared for years in his Lady of the Camellias and made wads of money...
...Franchise, and was acquiring a reputation as a tempestuous prima donna. By the time she was 20, she had taken a lover and given birth to an illegitimate son. Then began the long parade: short runs with a vast assortment of lovers, longer runs and growing fame on the stage. She was the queen in Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias, Phèdre in Racine's classic, and she donned trousers as Napoleon's hapless son, the Duc de Reichstadt, in Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon. Kings mooned over her, and audiences wept torrents over...