Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the marriage of the Tsaritsa's son to a German princess and his ascension as Nicholas II, the life of Maria Feodorovna entered its final and increasingly tragic stage. In vain she strove to prevent the Last of the Tsars, her son, from becoming the dupe of Rasputin and his other degenerate councilors. Once she said to him, "Come
...When located they were succored, first by drilling small holes to admit air, next by enlarging the holes until sandwiches and heartening bottles of brandy could be passed in, and finally by excavating and propping up passages through which they could crawl. A few perished, even at this late stage, when some of the propped passageways collapsed. Injured were 30 policemen, soldiers and volunteers; killed none...
Faust. Wrapped with the finest trappings of the Theatre Guild and propelled by delicious off-stage airs, Goethe's masterpiece was revealed to Manhattan theatregoers as a tedious, mouthy drama several acts too long. There were moments when it was possible to believe in Mephistopheles, as played by Dudley Digges, an urbane and prowling devil; but his villainies were those of a barroom miscreant, his sacrilegious witticisms those of a sophomore, and it was impossible to get excited about the events which led up to the doctor's tragedy...
...assurance that he was thinking profound thoughts, his bombastic manner of doing so made you think he was lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities and delight...
...years past it has been the custom, after Navy Games, to meet the returning team at the station. There is an old stage-coach at the Point that has a history. The Corps has always taken it to the station and drawn it back by hand laden with the battered team. The announcement of the new captain has always been made from its top by the captain of the preceding year. Since I have been here. I have never seen a defeated team drawn up the hill. Now Navy Games are a thing of the past, for a time...