Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alumni throughout the nation are now preparing for the "big push" stage of the Program for Harvard College, Lawrence O. Pratt '26, Director of Publicity, announced yesterday...
...Scott is magnificent--a word not used lightly in these pages. I doubt if there is in nature anyone who would talk and gesture quite as he does; but director Robert Mulligan has wisely refused to force him down to life-size, and on the stage every stroke carries conviction. Bring on the grand old adjectives ("magnificent," above, will serve as a starter) for George C. Scott...
Judith Anderson plays the star role like a First Lady of the Stage, which for Miss Anderson is nothing new. Her Australian accent is comprehensible once you get used to it, and not inappropriate for the memory-ridden, shabby-genteel matriarch. She projects a genuine grandeur, a sense that no matter what Isabel Lawton does she is somehow worthy of admiration. In cold fact Isabel Lawton is worthy of very little admiration, and Miss Anderson makes her much better worth watching than Mr. Lamkin had any right to expect...
Preliminary plans for the new College Theatre, drawn by the firm of Hugh Stubbins and Associates, allow for an auditorium which can be used with a regular stage or as a semi-arena. "This plan achieves our aim of flexibility," Harry T. Levin '33, member of the Faculty Committee on the Theatre commented--and keeps within a cost limit of $1.5 million, reportedly set by the Corporation...
...main stage will be 35 feet deep with a proscenium height of 25 feet. The proscenium itself can be widened to 60 feet, while the stage house has a total height of 65 feet. Flexibility remains most important; "We have played down audience comfort and sight lines somewhat to make the auditorium more flexible," Myer commented...