Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left of foreign plays, once they were adapted. "Hamlet was played for the murder, the ghost, the burial; Macbeth for the witches, the sleepwalking scene, the knocking at the gate." Some plays "were hardly plays at all but omnibus inclusions of the latest news, the latest partisan arguments." The drama was half operatic, exceedingly oratorical, and stagy oratory was perhaps the greatest and most popular of the arts...
...brush with the Gestapo nearly ends the Piper's tour, but, at least in Hollywood, Englishmen like Woolley always win through. His children's crusade, scripted by Producer Nunnally Johnson from Nevil Shute's novel of the same name, is too episodic for all-out drama, but it is a mellow, amusing, often moving excursion...
There were five Sunday services (including the 8 a.m. Golfers' Service). There were daily radio programs presented by members of the church, a gymnasium, a Drama Workshop, a cafeteria, a day nursery, a kindergarten; a Children's Church in which children act as deacons, choir, ushers; a music library; a complete service for brides ($5 for 25 guests in the chapel; $50 for a big church wedding.) A College of Life offered instruction in foreign languages, piano playing, elocution, world affairs, contract bridge, the rumba...
Because NBC and CBS make a fetish of avoiding recorded programs, two at least of the U.S. radio networks have let the British get ahead of them in the use of transcriptions. Those used by local U.S. stations have consisted mainly of music, light drama and advertising. But this month a series of British-style documentaries went out to more than 300 radio stations which use the Thesaurus Service of NBC's Radio-Recording Division. The best of the series, Commandos, proved that a canned program can be just as hot as one broadcast "live...
...Dana, Ph.D., '10, at Harvard, has taught at the University of Paris and at Columbia. After making a special study of the drama in American and in the various countries of Europe, he spent much of the last fifteen years in Russia. Based on his study of the theatres, plays, operas, ballets, and films there, is his "Handbook on Soviet Drama...