Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one of us rose and proposed that the senior member open the Assembly proceedings. The "senior" was an SR Deputy, S. P. Shvetsov. He mounted the stage, accompanied by a bestial racket from the left that was to continue for hours. Mingled with the shouts and whistles were howls and yells, stamping of feet and pounding on desktops. The galleries, jammed with members of the Bolshevik party, added to the appalling...
Bolsheviks leaped to the stage and wrested the Speaker's bell from Shvetsov's hand. The Bolshevik Sverdlov, ringing the captured bell, announced the opening of the Assembly for the second time. After a singing of the Internationale, Sverdlov invited the Deputies to become a rubber-stamp Parliament, warning us that "even from a formal point of view," any opposition to the Soviet regime was, in essence, illegal. Before murdering the Assembly, the Reds were giving it the option of committing suicide...
...world, he and his wife throw themselves into the water. Swimming in symbolism, The Chairs readily enough suggests people's enisled fate in life's estranging sea, their efforts to flesh their daydreams, enforce their beliefs, communicate, be remembered. Providing playfully humorous touches and some remarkable stage effects, The Chairs is at times both engaging and lightly evocative, but calls for greater imaginative pressure, has no really tragic underside to its surface drolleries...
Divorced. By Faye Emerson, 40, blonde actress of stage, screen and TV (I've Got a Secret): her third husband (others: William Wallace Crawford Jr., Elliott Roosevelt), Bandleader Lyle ("Skitch") Henderson, 39; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Mexico City...
Died. Margaret Anglin, 81, sad-eyed, Junoesque tragedienne, one of the greats of the American stage; in Toronto. Born in the Canadian House of Parliament (where her father, as Speaker of the House of Commons, had quarters), Actress Anglin began in a bit part on Broadway, achieved fame overnight in 1898 as Roxanne in Richard Mansfield's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, made her greatest popular success (in 1906) in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide...