Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...about Eve" is a wittily contrived film about theatrical people's values. Its characters are a temperamental veteran stage actress (Bette Davis), an unscrupulous young girl named Eve who wants to be a stage star (Anne Baxter), and a handful of other arty folk including a director, a producer, a writer, and a columnist...
...life. I have lived with the reality of war, and I have praised soldiers; but the hope of honorable, faithful peace is a greater thing and I have lived with that, too. That a man must live with both together is inherent in the nature of our present stormy stage of human progress, but it has also many times been the nature of progress in the past, and it is not reason for despair...
...firmly convinced that nothing makes a reader turn to a comic strip faster than the belief that one of its characters is about to be disemboweled, and the actors who tread his narrow stage are continually being starved, frozen, bilked, shot, or flattened out by the frequent upheavals of Capp's pulsating planet...
...mild evening in Paris last spring, the gaily lighted Tuileries Gardens were the scene of a lively kermesse. It was a county fair, Paris style, with chorus girls prancing on an open-air platform while, at garishly decorated stands, French stage and screen stars whooped it up for French products. In all the buzzing, crowded area there was but one solemn touch. A long, patient line had formed before a plain board platform. On it sat a slender, spectacled novelist rapidly autographing stacks of his latest book. They were selling as fast as he could write his name...
...most precocious youth of 14 who ever trod the Victorian stage. He smokes, plays cards, and makes love to his piano-teacher, just as if he were 19 years old. One night he even lures his stepfather to a roisterous dinner at the Hotel des Princes, a genteel Victorian hellspot...