Word: staging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program. "Considerable confusion," he wrote, "is being caused by the new green petrol which changes to yellow when mixed with the blue dual-purpose petrol. It is difficult to analyze the mixture on the spot and the position is complicated by the similarity between this petrol in its yellow stage and the red petrol which becomes yellow when mixed with the new grey petrol which must be mixed with brown petrol for pleasure trips of more than one-seventh of a mile in a farm tractor...
When My Baby Smiles at Me (20th Century-Fox) is a watered-down version of the durable stage hit Burlesque.* The old plot is still there, but the characters have been tidied up. The play treated burlesque as a pretty tough part of show business. In the movie, it is just more of the same old backstage life where actors occasionally misplace a pronoun...
...Francis Barnard, the poet, and David Lloyd who played Narciso, the lover, were also very fine. Marshall Heinbaugh, as Selim the Turk, was the only principal really beyond his element. It may have been the beard encircling his face, but every sound he made was so mufiled that the stage seemed three times further off than the one block it actually...
Goldovsky has completely reworked the plot, made a minor character into the operetta's protagonist, and used production devices more familiar in Hollywood than on an opera stage. The music has been orchestrated, but other than that left pretty much alone. The result of these manipulations is an operetta not only delightful to hear, but excellent theater as well...
...flames, at one stage reached the height of four stories, according to one observer...