Word: prompters
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...American Revolutionists, the life of John Brown, the plight of migrant workers. When the idea is too broad for a single painting, Lawrence turns out a series. Otherwise he sticks to the things he sees around him - lovers on a couch before a blaring phonograph, a bone-weary prompter in a cheap vaudeville theater, the teeming streets of Harlem on a steaming summer night...
...foreign countries. Many a present-day Opera Guilder never steps inside the Met, but the membership is bound together by its ritualistic devotion to the Met's Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts and by the guild magazine, Opera News, which combines first-rate scholarship with the kind of prompter's box chitchat that opera fans feed on. With dues at $6 and up, the guild has raised $2,000,000 for the Met, has paid for 14 new productions (including a new Ring cycle, a fine new Magic Flute, last year's Simon Boccanegra) and helped...
...Speech Prompter. For businessmen, teachers and other frequent speechmakers, Chicago's Telit Industries has a scaled-down version of the TV TelePrompTer, called the TelExecutive. The typed speech is held on a roll that moves across an illuminated plastic panel, can be slowed, quickened or reversed by a hand control used by the speaker. Cost: $169.50 v. about $2,300 for the commercial TV prompter...
MacLeish's writing runs the gamut from the loftiest poetic imagery to colloquial vulgarisms. And he makes use of an effective gimmick for underscoring certain crucial lines by employing a celestial prompter over a loudspeaker, whose words are then delivered by the actor on stage; it brings to mind the old French dictum, "Un beau vers on peut entendre deux fois...
...years) Metropolitan Opera Librarian Lionel Mapleson, an Englishman whose father was librarian to Queen Victoria. Mapleson set out in 1901 to put on wax live performances by all of the opera's greatest stars. More enthusiastic than informed, he at first propped his giant horn in the prompter's box, where it was easily visible to the audience. Then he decided to move it up into the flies, where it was no longer visible, though the grinding of the cylinders was still clearly audible to the singers on the stage. Mapleson ran his machine intermittently...