Word: staging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...syphilis and gonorrhea: require as many as 100 consecutive injections over a period of eight days, use from 2,000,000 to 9,000,000 units of the drug. Secret of the speedup and increased effectiveness of the new penicillin treatment, still in the experimental stage: the drug is dissolved in oil with 2% aluminum monostearate. The process coats the penicillin particles, which are ordinarily absorbed in the bloodstream within two to four hours, and keeps them at work for 72 hours...
From there is Varsity proceeds to the Adams Cup Regatta against Navy, Penn, and Columbia. Advance information on the latter two is scant at tilis stage, but the Middies have seven men back from last year's powerful and heavy shell...
From the New England Conservatory of Music came Marguerite Willauer to play Galatea. You will look long before you find such a lovely and poised creature on an opera stage. Except for a few uncertainties, she sang with purity and richness. Her alternating recitative with Tibbetts compares favorably with any singing around, including, I expect, the Met next week...
Professor French deserves the highest praise for training the chorus in behavior, which was sufficiently indifferent to the action on stage, and for precise cooperation. The hymn-like a cappella sections of the finale were perfectly beautiful. But Malcolm Holmes, the conductor, cannot be given such plaudits. Although the orchestra showed its capabilities, he failed on several attacks and seldom succeeded in subduing the instrumentalists in time to get the soloists' first phrases...
...love with a wonderful guy." These emphatically joyful words are from one of Mary Martin's songs in "South Pacific"; to see and hear her sing them is to see and hear at her very best one of the few genuine stars on the American musical stage today. Miss Martin's contribution to the show is prodigious, and I shall return to her presently. At the moment, I hasten to announce that anybody who possesses seats for "South Pacific," which is reported to be absolutely and positively sold out for its three weeks in Boston, will fall in love, fall...