Word: three-act
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...mustached figure of some 200 lbs., immensely vain (at times sporting 20 medals) and prodigiously philandering (he had six wives in all, two at once in 1871). Ned wrote more words than most men speak, 10,000 a day in one six-day stretch, once blurting out an entire three-act play in four hours...
This week, in the first top-hat event of the season, first-nighters saw England's fine company do a Russian masterpiece the way it is still done only in the Soviet Union and Covent Garden. They sat, charmed, through the complete three-act, three-hour-long Tchaikovsky-Petipa ballet The Sleeping Beauty. Few could say they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann...
Adams and Dunster will start the rash of celebrations this weekend. The Gold-coasters are presenting George S. Kaufman's "The Man Who Came to Dinner" on Friday night, and Dunster will put forth an original three-act comedy...
...Leiden, Juliana wrote a three-act comedy called Bluebeard. It was a slightly Shavian version of the story, with Bluebeard depicted as a psychiatrist and golf enthusiast; Juliana herself played one of Bluebeard's wives. Another time, she tried her hand at poetry; her anonymous entry in a class contest was judged "song of the year." The refrain went...
...play out of the devoted, half-century old relationship between Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife, Fanny. No attempt is made to satisfy those who would have preferred hearing the principles of this most eminent architect of modern American Constitutional thought, in what would necessarily be a garrulous three-act production...