Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...briskly back to Tokyo and gone about his war. The other had flown back to San Francisco to make a speech. A performance of The Barber of Seville had been canceled to give him a platform in the War Memorial Opera House. By the time Harry Truman strode on stage, he had provoked the U.S. into rapt curiosity. But the President did little to satisfy...
Before a select audience of 250 rapt ladies and a dozen faintly bored gentlemen, some 13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program...
...screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" follows the script, set, and even some of the props of the stage version with unusual faithfulness. But it fails to duplicate the central characters' sense of confinement and of frustration which was one of the chief virtues of the play...
...soon as the camera moves out of the room in which most of "The Glass Menagerie" takes, place, it lets the characters out and one can't feel quite as sorry for them as one did in the play. One of the most poignant episodes in the stage production, for instance, was a monologue in which Amanda Wingfield, a demolished southern belle, recalls her past. It was poignant because the belle was so far from her romantic youth. The picture, however, in order to avoid focusing on one face for several minutes, adds a flashback to the monologue; the belle...
Boris Aronson's sets are wonderfully faithful to the Odetsian scene. The squalor of a one-room flat is accented by a flowering red plant, an empty stage by a dramatic shadow. In a Broadway dressing room there is a feeling of glitter. Mr. Odets has directed the play himself, and except for a slow paced first act, his staging is effective...