Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farther to get a true fusion reaction and farther still to prove it." Sustaining a fusion reaction, he explained, is like lighting a piece of paper with a match. First the paper turns brown, then it smokes, then it bursts into flame. "We think we have reached the stage where the deuterium is beginning to show a little brown." What Kolb and the Naval Research Laboratory need now is a bank of condensers ten times as powerful, i.e., a bigger match...
...thing was sure from the moment the curtain rose: this King Lear was not the lean, commanding character of Shakespearean tradition. Brought to the stage of Britain's Stratford Memorial Theater by Cinemactor Charles (Mutiny on the Bounty) Laughton last week, King Lear was an eye-rolling, tongue-lolling, hand-scrabbling, dirty old man. Above a billowing green gown that looked like a collapsed circus tent (but still could not hide the hefty Laughton paunch), the famed suet-pudding face was almost obscured by a wild halo of home-grown white whiskers and an unkempt shoulder-length mane...
...critics agreed with Laughton's interpretation. The News Chronicle found him "not at all unlike a mixture of Charles Darwin and Longfellow . . . weak and frail and human . . . hardly ever majestic, towering or superhuman." But the Times thought "Mr. Laughton's performance a superb essay in stage pathos...
Died. Elizabeth Dodero Shannon, 45, onetime Ziegfeld showgirl (stage name: Betty Sundmark) who. while appearing in Monte Carlo Follies, met and married Argentine Shipping Magnate Alberto Dodero, became an international-set hostess and an intimate friend of Argentine Dictator Juan Peron and wife Eva; in Manhattan. To solidify her husband's personal-business relationship with Peron, Betty once stripped a diamond ring off her finger to give Eva when she admired...
Died. Theresa Helburn, 72, tiny (5 ft.), hard-driving director (one of six) of the Theatre Guild since its founding in 1919. co-director after 1939, who gave up middling playwriting and dramatic criticism to rescue the Broadway stage from commercial mediocrity in the 1920s by tenaciously putting on demanding works by such authors as G. B. Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood and William Inge, was the first to pair Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage (The Guardsman, 1924); of a heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories...