Word: supersized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mob on the Stage. Flanked on either side by huge towers of brickwork that once formed the walls of the calidarium, Caracalla's is one of the world's biggest opera stages: more than a third of an acre. To keep it from looking empty, the Rome Opera...
On its soth anniversary this week, Packard proudly unveiled its first 1949 models. On the outside, they looked much the same as the old ones. But under the floorboards there was something to send rival automakers back to their drawing boards. Packard had come out with a new automatic shift...
We arrived at the stage door an hour before curtain-time, as required. The Metropolitan Theater, designed as it was for movies, does not contain the ultimate in dressing rooms as far as mob scenes are concerned. With a crowd of other supers--all male--from B. U. and the...
I wore a pair of brown tights, as did all the supers (male), a green cloth headress of the Easter fashions of 3478 B. C., and a brilliant red tunic. I termed my group the Red soldiers. Harry was a soldier in what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded...
We solved the boiler question by walking out of the room. As long as we were in costume nobody bothered us. We could go anywhere backstage and people ignored us. I guess they figured we were luminaries or were trying to catch an 8:40 cue. Anyhow, led by the...