Word: backdropped
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...with the rustic humors of the play (and with the Mercury Theatre's economical practice), the stage setting is built of unfinished boards against a backdrop of homespun. Without any intermission, the action overflows between three small inner stages and out into the audience on the forestage. The Shoemakers' Holiday looks and sounds like spontaneous revelry, but it represents the hard work of a talented new group whose ambitions are neither political nor esthetic but, in the word's best sense, theatrical...
...grand evening!" commented King George after the last turn, a Scottish shepherd who sang A Hundred Pipers an' A', after which 100 pipers from Scottish regiments marched in piping their loudest, burst into God Save the King before a backdrop of Edinburgh Castle. Cried Scottish Queen Elizabeth "Thank you for a wonderful surprise...
...Mississippi and the most militant laborman in the U. S. And it is, as Mr. Beck declared last week, a tight to a bitter finish. The fronts shift, the issues vary, but for nearly all labor trouble in California and the Northwest, the Beck-Bridges war is the sombre backdrop...
...gilded trappings hung from above, no canvas masonry affronted the eye of the 1937 realist. The play, up-to-date in dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The high loft, emptied of its scenery, lent itself to a grotesque play of light and shadow. Below, on a bare stage platform graded down toward the audience by three steps, the Mercury Theatre players enacted a sinister tragedy of dictatorship...
...labor question ... is the outstanding problem in today's industrial life" declared Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace in a farewell address to the members of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan last week. To the nation's steelmasters, gathered in record numbers against a backdrop of the biggest steel strike since 1919 (see p. 13); the outstanding and directly related question was Mr. Grace's successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been...