Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nothing beats the sheer excitement of live TV," glowed Susskind in the darkness of NBC's vast Brooklyn sound stage one long, tense afternoon last week. Around him rolled the final rehearsals of Kraft Theater's Part 2 of All the King's Men, Novelist Robert Penn Warren's case history of a Huey Longish red-neck politician's rise and fall. Skidding between 14 sets under the glaring lights, fretting actors stumbled over camera cables. Before banks of baffling screens and switches in the darkened control room hunched wild-haired Director Sydney Lumet ("Places...
...Harrison calls "modern baroque," the new Met will have five huge, barrel-vault cantilevers rising to a height of eight stories at the entrance, grille-and-glass façaded sides, and a horseshoe interior seating 3,800 (v. the Met's 3,612). The 108-ft.-deep stage will be serviced by a 14-story stage loft and three movable stages, one equipped with turntable...
...greater acoustical perfection than the New York Philharmonic's famed Carnegie Hall. To house a permanent dance repertory group, Architect Philip Johnson (TIME, July 2, 1956) will design a structure that will have "walls papered with people," i.e., a system of balconies giving clear sight lines to the stage. M.I.T. Architecture Dean Pietro Belluschi will build a new Juilliard School. For a park to the southwest, the Guggenheim Foundation will donate a $500,000 bandstand for summer concerts. Still to be assigned from a pool of such top architects as Eero Saarinen and Edward D. Stone are commissions...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the award of the Philip Washburn Prize for 1957-58 to David Ted Roy '59 for his thesis entitled, "Kuo Mo-Jo: The Pre-Marxist Stage." The Prize is the income from the fund...
...Stage Struck. Local girl makes good on Broadway -the hard way; with Susan Strasberg. Henry Fonda (TIME, April...