Word: stairways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play factory since George Pierce Baker's late, great 47 Workshop at Harvard. It also has a broader backstairs to Broadway. In the last nine years, seven C.U.-produced plays (including Lute Song and Sing Out, Sweet Land) have opened in New York. Last week C.U. added a stairway to Hollywood...
Having learned how to handle ectoplasm lightly and deftly from English movies such as "Blithe Spirit" and "Stairway to Heaven," the men in the shadow of Beverly Hills have made the romance of the shade of a sea captain and a very much alive young widow, excellent and almost believable entertainment. Only the loud, artificial background music is out of place. The widow, Gene Tierney of course, is beset by all sorts of worries from beginning to end. She has no money to pay for the rent, so the captain dictates the story of his life to her, which...
...such was the tone of the proceedings in general. The "Grizzle" where student spectators of a pre-war era frequently held the main stairway with a fire hose against the minions of the law, now caters to elderly ladies crocheting in the lobby. Elsewhere along the river conditions were not up to par either, Small crafts of all kinds were in abundance, but the mammoth yachts of old, from the great three-masted schooners to the nearocean liners of the more opulent old grads, were still in the moth balls in which they have lanquished since...
...luxurious third-floor apartment of Havana's rococo presidential palace, bachelor Ramón Grau San Martin had finished his morning cup of sweet black coffee. On the stroke of 9 he walked down the private stairway to his office below. He was ready for a day-long procession of visitors...
Last year the gong rang in some impressive film achievements. Two British films (Henry V and Brief Encounter) were voted among the year's best movies by Manhattan critics. Last week nine other Rank pictures (Odd Man Out, Stairway to Heaven, etc.) were holding down Manhattan cinemansions. And next week Rank's Great Expectations is scheduled to open in Manhattan's massive Radio City Music Hall-the movie world's equivalent of a White House reception for an immigrant...