Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tonight on WMEX, the Young Republican Club and the Law School Democratic Club will stage their last joint debate of the campaign, the third in a series. Benjamin Kaplan, professor of Law, will moderate the argument between the Republican and Democratic teams...
...Signed a new contract giving him the highest salary in stage history...
...Prospect Before Us is the latest stage on Dos Passes' long road back. It is a calm, wide, sometimes rather hazy look at the democratic vista from where Dos Passos now stands, at a position close to that of the late Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis-champion of the individual, implacable foe of organized Bigness. The book presents-as an imaginary series of movie-illustrated lectures followed by questions from the audiences-a series of reports on countries Dos Passos has visited recently (Britain, Argentina, Chile) and on recent happenings in the U.S. The lecturer-audience exchanges, which seem...
Playwright Tennessee Williams' first novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...
...insidiously balmy Roman spring, Karen Stone, past 50, discovers that her life is slipping away. She has been a successful actress and great beauty; now, after a ludicrous stab at playing Juliet, she is through with the stage and, even worse, aware that her beauty is dead. Lonely and anxious, she is taken in tow by a ravenous old contessa who supplies her with "beautiful" young men as escorts. Mrs. Stone, good American that she is, pays them as expected but politely declines their ultimate services. But when she meets Paolo, a gigolo with the face of an angel...