Word: staging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dorothy Heyward's first novel, "Hot Water", will be published this Spring by The Century Co. The author is the wife of Dubose Heyward and collaborated on the stage version of the famous novel "Porgy...
...gentle disturbances which occur in villages where everyone is either anticipating or taking a siesta. Earlier this season, Otis Skinner's genial grunts sounded almost melodramatic in the Quinteros' languorous A Hundred Years Old (TIME, Oct. 14). And now Eva Le Gallienne, simply by swirling on stage in a dark wig and a bright gown with innumerable ruffles, creates what amounts to consternation in a similarly torpid drama. She is the village belle, and all that happens is a delicate demonstration that when village gossips decide it would be nice for her to be wooed by the visitor...
...Fogg lecture room yesterday afternoon. Admiral Sims explained that an invading fleet which had captured, for example, Montauk Point, would soon exhaust its fuel cruising to escape American submarines, and that its airplane carriers would be ineffectual against the superior numbers of the defending air fleet, which would stage a bombing at its leisure. "The best the invaders could do," said the Admiral, "would be to place the ball of their thumbs on their noses, make a disrespectful gesture, and retire." An enemy fleet, he pointed out, would attack our commerce only...
...general re-marshalling of its strength will be necessary if this present model of the Crimson six intends to stage a risorgimento. The best defense is an offense and as soon as a team gets the attacking idea it goes places, provided of course it's got the necessary ingredients. And it's pretty generally admitted that the hockey squad meets almost all the requirements. Judging from the season's showing, the Harvard offensive seems to have been working under wraps, and for no really good reason. Both forward trios could well afford to throw their cautions to the wind...
...type. The student who drifts from one position to another after graduation, merely because of lack of practical experience, is all too common. The new plan, besides being remunerative, offers such experience, in the nature of an apprenticeship which conflates in no way his university career. In its present stage the Junior Training Unit is extremely attractive as a solution of some of the outstanding evils of existing vocational systems. It is an experiment as yet, but as such it deserves an enthusiastic reception rather than a faint indictment...