Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performance of Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring was attended, last week, by T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York. Hitherto no one of the King's sons has entered a theatre since the critical stage of his illness. Princess Mary has been to a benefit circus, laughed...
...laden, arrived at Kandahar from Kabul via Peshawar, British India; and out slumped Big Brother Inayatullah. For him were flown no royal standards. Therefore the double abdication of last week appeared as nothing more than a successful double cross to outwit Bandit Bacha Sakao, and permit King Amanullah to stage a coup d' escape...
...rather short and stocky gentleman, emerging in evening clothes from the ante room . . . looked neither to right nor left, took two at a time the steps leading to the stage . . . Arthur Honegger, arisen, significant, acknowledged figure of the new generation." So. last week, did H. T. Parker of the Boston Transcript appraise Boston's guest conductor. Thus are adjectives made to grow, for five years ago Honegger had been just a precocious fellow who at seven had composed two operas in the treble clef, as he knew no other, at eleven some 30 sonatas, in his twenties...
...opposed to the American cinema magnates on the ground that they are more or less concentrated on the bastardization of the cinema not only with wearisome nonsense in regard to sex and romance but now with the talking pictures, the aim of which latter apparently is to exhume old stage plays which can be reproduced poorly and cheaply, yet be made to pay well...
There are also interludes of dullness which can easily be cut out. A. E. Thomas. writer of the play, follows the custom of this season by prowling onto the stage himself. He impersonates a Vermont district attorney with an accent which he must have learned in the damp parlors of Manhattan...