Word: stage
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...this week the congressional chorus began to march on the stage to take an active part in the show. From the House Ways & Means Committee came the Administration's excess-profits bill, voted out over the fruitless protests of Republican members, economists and businessmen (see BUSINESS). But in the atmosphere of crisis, Administration leaders predicted that they would drive it through to early passage...
Claire Messengill rose and led the baby down the aisle. Husband George followed her. Until then, those in charge of the contest had had no intimation that the winner was the child of an interracial marriage. Fearing trouble, one of the judges hastily called, "Only one parent on the stage, please!" Otherwise, the discovery made no difference to the judge. Lester got his scholarship, a crown, a big silver cup, and a trip to Jim Crow Miami for the whole family. Said father George Messengill proudly: "The selection of Lester will go a long way to solving the racial problem...
...Robinson Jeffers) is the first of ten productions that the American National Theater and Academy plans to offer on Broadway this season. What is mostly the matter with the first of their plays is that it seldom seems like a play at all. It is merely an undynamic stage treatment of Jeffers' well-known dramatic poem on the House of Atreus. Though it chronicles the matricide of Clytemnestra, the murders of Agamemnon, Aegisthus and Cassandra, and more than dabbles in adultery and incest, it is too choked by imagery ever to ignite, is too highbustedly declamatory ever to terrify...
Judith Anderson-who, on opening night, went on just after hearing the news of her mother's death-is very often sulphurous and always stage-dominating as Clytemnestra; but the role itself is generally so static that it compels the actress to become on occasion stagy. Beyond that, there are brief flashes of drama, bright snatches of language, and good moments (along with bad) of stage spectacle. Of many deeds unspeakable and atrocious has Pelops' line been many times accused; but perhaps never before of simply being dull...
Though Cagney settles down at the Academy as comfortably as if he were in stir, it takes some feverish scripting to get him there. A down-at-heel Broadway genius, he is hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point...