Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conductors handled Beethoven and his favorite, Mozart. "Some so-called wizards of the baton," he wrote, "play Beethoven and Mozart finales as though they were riding a shying horse and had lost the reins." Strauss also felt that he himself had been badly dealt with by publishers, stage directors and actors. His father, first horn at the Munich court opera, had to contribute 1,000 marks ($238) to the printing cost of the F-Minor Symphony. "My fee for Don Juan," Strauss recorded, "was 800 marks ... for Eulenspiegel [one of his most frequently played works], 1,000 marks...
Died. Philip Barry, 53, playwright who won fame & fortune from both stage & screen by specializing in smart dialogue among the smart set (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, The Philadelphia, Story); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Maria Ouspenskaya, 73, wizened, rasp-voiced supporting actress of stage & screen (Love Affair, The Rains Came, King's Row); of second- and third-degree burns, after falling asleep while smoking in bed; in Hollywood. Russian-born, Stanislavski-trained, Mme. Ouspenskaya came to the U.S. in 1923 (as the dying woman in the Moscow Art Theater production of Gorki's The Lower Depths), divided her time between Broadway, her acting school and Hollywood, where she stole many a scene from more glamourous players, saved many a potboiler from the critics' claws with her playing of a querulous...
...acting out the situation, Dr. Moreno's assistant, a Miss Tocman, served as the girl. Her "stage" experience proved too much for Tom. She twisted his attempts at casual pre-class time talk into insults. Tom still didn't get the date...
...this problem, Dr. Moreno made the trackman run around a circular table on the stage, followed by a student from the audience who had been appointed "auxiliary ego" to run beside him and offer encouragement...