Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autopsy on Peter DeVries' novel Reuben, Reuben. Melvyn Douglas gives a cunningly ingratiating performance as a retired Connecticut Yankee chicken farmer who finds New York commuters the bane and boon of his existence. The melancholy fact remains that like an obituary an adaptation of a novel to the stage says good things of the dead without restoring them to life...
...SHOW-OFF is George Kelly's comedy of 1924, but it is datelessly entertaining. Its hero (Clayton Corzatte) is a braying, backslapping braggart with the laugh of a hyena and the grandiloquent transparency of a born liar. The actress who commandeers the stage in this APA revival is Helen Hayes in her best role since Queen Victoria...
...beam surgery. While he was recuperating, his U.S.O. company went on without him to Ankara. Hope flew to Germany where an Air Force plane picked him up and ferried him to Turkey. "He looked like a sick man," says one of his assistants, "but when he walked on the stage, the roar that went up from those people was probably the world's greatest therapy. From that moment on you could physically see the change He was his old self, rarin...
...Seldom, even in the half-light of the theater, have I seen an audience as patently perplexed as this one," wrote Herbert Kretzmer of the Daily Express. "It would need a psychoanalyst-and preferably Tennessee Williams' own-to offer a rational interpretation of the enigmas that litter the stage like pieces of an elaborate jigsaw...
...auto industry of labor peace until 1970-though it could be a shaky peace at first. Reason: local issues are still unresolved by all but 15 of G.M.'s 134 bargaining units. Probably the most restless of all U.A.W. members, G.M. workers are thus in a position to stage local walkouts that could disrupt production or even close down the company altogether. Reuther considers that unlikely. The new national contract, the U.A.W. boss predicted last week, "should hasten a prompt disposition of all remaining local issues...