Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...show starts simply enough as a bedtime story about a nineteenth century chimney-sweep. Then the children and storytellers decide to make an opera out of the tale. As the opera is written, the author gives the audience a part, singing four songs: a prologue, epilogue and two entre-acts. The first set of "Let's Make an Opera" is devoted to the problems of amateurs writing an opera, rehearsing the opera with all sorts of trouble from noisy children, and finally rehearsing the audience. The second act is the opera itself...
...from the check experiment now going on at the other Ivy college is that players' aggressiveness will not fall so much at the end of the season. The way he reasons this is that at most other colleges, football players receive a kind of prestige which stimulates them to act aggressively after as well as during the season. They therefore will create aggressive situations in which they can play their role. These situations, and the prospect of them, will keep their aggressiveness rating higher...
...over Tibet, contended that Tibet had "complete independence" from the time of the Chinese revolution of 1911 ("Tibet thereafter depended entirely on her isolation, her faith in the wisdom of Lord Buddha, and occasionally on support of the British in India for her protection"), denounced the Reds' "unwarranted act of aggression," appealed for U.N. aid because "we understand the United Nations have decided to stop aggression wherever it takes place...
Close the Schools. Except for a new "Hopalong Hildegarde" number which she did in a red sombrero to the strains of Texas Tornado, the act was the standard Hildegarde mixture of sentiment and bounce. Interspersed with her flamboyant piano-playing and her vivacious and nostalgic songs came such blushing lines as "I know I'm not pretty, but I got pep." She kept getting her audiences into the act by handing out roses and kisses to bashful customers (one man decorated with a rose in Olney, Md.: General Omar Bradley...
What Do You Expect? In Akron, Ohio last week Hildy proved that she could thaw her audience (paying a top of $3.50) even in the frigid atmosphere of an armory. Flitting from microphone to piano in front of her band, combing her upswept hairdo with both hands (an act which once caused a West Coast wag to nickname her "Miss Armpits"), Hildy got them all right into the act as usual...