Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearing to a road. It was Friday, June 21, 1940. At exactly 3:15 o'clock, German summer time, from a touring car that had stopped at the far end of the avenue stepped a small man with a catlike tread and a supreme sense of the drama that is history...
...months she was busy writing and acting in her first and almost interminable masterwork, Painted Dreams. Irna continued to turn out Painted Dreams until 1932, when WGN refused an offer to sell it to a national network. In a huff, Irna quit the station, filed suit to reclaim her drama, went to work for NBC. Still undetermined, after eight years in the courts, is the ownership of Painted Dreams. Whether she owned it or not, Irna didn't hesitate to fashion her next opera upon it. This one was called Today's Children, a story about an average...
Waterloo Bridge (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a drastic reworking of Robert Sherwood's doleful drama about a love episode in Blighty during World War I-keyed up to catch the overtones of World War II, and toned down to meet the objections of censors. Waterloo Bridge is no longer a tale of a shy Canadian soldier who falls in love with a shy London trull. It is the story of a good-looking, upper-class British officer (Robert Taylor) who, during an air raid, conceives an undying passion for a good-looking ballerina (Vivien Leigh). After causing...
...hawk face and eagle brow, he impersonated a priestly poet so perfectly that many were won to believe that such a thing could exist. With Edward Martyn, George Moore and Lady Gregory he founded the Abbey Theatre (1904), gave the often mocking and protesting public large doses of mythological drama, forced it to swallow the romantic proletarianism of Synge's folk plays...
...Simonson '08, noted New York stage designer, Walter Pritchard Eaton '00, of the Yale School of the Drama, and other specialists in this field will hold seminars connected with the summer dramatic courses...