Word: staging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons: Cheered stalwart William Graham, President of the Board of Trade (equals "Secretary of Commerce"), when he collapsed from joy-shock at seeing his coal bill squeak through committee stage by nine votes, one more than the House gave it at second reading (TIME, Dec. 30). Friends carried out the collapsed President, sent him home for a stiff dose of sleep...
...Pizzetti's public reception last week. Toscanini blessed the Venetian Rondo with his full genius. It was clever, well-made picture music of pompous, aristocratic Venice and of Venice, roistering and plebeian. The audience applauded it cordially and Pizzetti, a little, worried-looking man, took bows from the stage. But on the same program Toscanini had placed Mozart's D Major Symphony. Wagner's Tannhauser overture and the skirling Bacchanale music, Borodin's Prince Igor dances. Because these things had greater substance, Toscanini attained with them effects which, ironically, set the worthy efforts of the guest...
When the Cherry Sisters came to town, 30 years ago, loud was the rejoicing in poolrooms. The Cherry Sisters were blowsy, humorless young actresses who sang sentimental ballads completely off key, in dead earnestness. They appeared behind a serviceable net that covered the stage, and it was entirely au fait for the audience to hurl apples, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, other ingredients of a typical New England boiled dinner, throughout the Cherry Sisters appearance. In every town that the Cherry Sisters played, it was an invariable custom for the editor of the local paper to review their act with a column...
...Theatre is a queer mixture of good and bad. The feature picture, "Looked Doors", is based upon a play by Channing Pollock, which if well directed and well acted would have made as fine a movie melodrama as one could ever hope to see. But in the transition from stage to screen, "Locked Doors" suffered a multitude of indignities, and now it appears as a movie, basically the same as the play, but still a very pale copy of the original...
...hear the daily ten-minute broadcast of a blackface team called Amos 'n' Andy. To the proprietor it seemed incredible that such a brief radio feature could substantially affect his profits. But he wired his theatre for radio, broadcast Amos 'n' Andy regularly from the stage, and with amazement watched his empty seats fill up. Other nationwide theatres soon found it profitable to follow.suit...