Word: stagehands
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...Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, then to Europe. Sticklers for authenticity, the dancers brought their own cypress stage with them. This week, as is the custom when a brand-new stage is used, an official of the company consecrated it and invoked traditional Kabuki blessings-before any union stagehand was allowed to lay a hand...
...released as The Quiet Man, will be their best yet. If so, it can only add to the complexities that already beset Wayne's crowded life. An unassuming, worrying man who, in the words of one of his best friends, still thinks of himself as "a stagehand who got lucky," Duke is in many respects like a high-school football captain drafted willy-nilly as president of the student council and editor of the school paper. John Ford still treats him as a clumsy sophomore and bawls him out unmercifully when they work together. Wayne takes it like...
...correct an eighth note, or Designer Gerard was not moving a table or chair, she felt "them" creeping in on her: "The orchestra manager looking at his wrist watch and peering earnestly at me; the chorus master shifting on his feet, surreptitiously looking at his watch; the head stagehand; the chief electrician . . ." She learned to compute the cost of 15 minutes overtime in a flash; it could run into hundreds of dollars. But whenever she felt she had to have overtime drill, Rudi Bing, even though he was starting his first season with the biggest deficit in Met history...
Theaters & Mountains. More than ever, her son-a slender, reserved and intelligent kid-became the center of Libby Holman's life. They went on long trips together and worked at summer theaters, Libby as a performer, Topper as a stagehand. She visited him often at Putney School in Vermont, and stood by proudly last June when 17-year-old Topper, chairman of Putney's student council, graduated near the top of his class. This summer, Libby toured Europe. Topper went to California with Stephen Wasserman, a classmate, to work in one of the mines owned by Stephen...
...Apollo Theater, Wednesday nights are gala affairs, and seats go on sale a week in advance. By the time the last stage show is over the house is packed and noisy, waiting for Harlem's No. 1 amateur show. 'The fun really begins when bouncy, bright-eyed Stagehand Norman ("Puerto Rico") Miller appears, dressed up in one of a roomful of outlandish costumes, and brandishing the prop pistol he uses to chase unsuccessful amateurs offstage...