Word: staging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toward the end of the nineteenth century the stage had wandered far from its original position. The theatres of America had become cluttered up with the romantic, sugar-coated, story-telling type of play...
...About the turn of the century there was a change of feeling regarding drama. People began to feel that the stage was no place to spin a yarn. It was insisted that a good play must present a situation of intrinsic importance. The principle that a play must be important gained great headway, spreading with increasing rapidity after...
This situation embarrassed the surgeons. They hastened to write a joint letter to the American Medical Association: ". . . we wish to impress on the medical profession the fact that the work to date, although quite promising, is still in the experimental stage, and therefore decidedly inconclusive...
...with which they had begun. Thus vaguely, with idealistic intonation, the sisters have always revealed themselves. Alice, now married to British Artist Herbert Crowley, lives, in Paris. But Irene has carried on in the same lofty spirit. As "the Lewisohn Sisters" she inaugurated the production of "symphonic music with stage and orchestra" for which she has written the scenarios, done the directing.* Out of these experiments grew last week's performances for which Conductor Sokolov provided the musical ideas. Soon Irene hopes to realize an anniversary scheme to include a longer season in Manhattan, road tours for which...
Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, in his way, is a master of musical-comedy dialog, especially in the dialect of the stage Englishman of very high or low degree. Mr. Mulliner Speaking is a collection of his sprightly tales: the narrator in each case is the affably reminiscent Mr. Mulliner, who holds forth to his jaw-dropped cronies in the bar of the Angler's Rest. In every case the hero, or the goat, is some pinheaded nephew or vague cousin of Mr. Mulliner's: the vicissitudes related are as improbable and as fetching as the language they...