Word: staging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...attempts to outpace it, and as an artist or teacher ceased to have much to say. Assimilated by the middleaged, he had no spell for the young in politics and as an artist he influenced no one. There remained only his reclame, perhaps his most remarkable achievement-his unique stage personality remained sharp, sagacious and dazzling; the delightful vanity of his genius kept the limelight till the last...
...Death Duties. In Ireland, he might have been reduced to the alcoholism which had frightened him as a child in the life of his father. And there was a second strain of Irish genius which can be developed to a higher pitch outside that country: the role of the stage-Irishman. Whenever that genius has submitted to the discipline of the theater, it has been irresistible. Behind Shaw the dramatist were Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde...
...been truly said that Shaw's anger never made enemies. Irish evasiveness, sociability and energy made him wish resolutely to cut the best figure on the thinnest ice. He kept up his stage role to the last. He was sometimes petulant in the publicity he delighted in. His great age was his last great turn, which could hardly conceal an appalling loneliness. All his contemporaries were dead. His wife had gone. He recognized how poor his contacts with human beings were, now he was without intermediaries. He was, in a sense, unhuman. He depended on servants whom he hardly...
Director Webster had hoped to have the whole cast on the stage "for at least three hours, totally mine, in which the conductor does not interfere at all." She never got it. She quickly learned that opera is a compromise between the eye & the ear-and that "the Met's great god is time." Even when Conductor Stiedry was not rushing up from the pit to correct an eighth note, or Designer Gerard was not moving a table or chair, she felt "them" creeping in on her: "The orchestra manager looking at his wrist watch and peering earnestly...
...buildings are more or less a joint project; both will be designed by the Boston firm of Coolidge, Sheepley, Bullfinich, and Abbott, planners of Lamont Library. Provost Buck stated yesterday that the proposed G.E. revolving stage room--which might be a natural showplace--was never intended as a theatre. In any case, the National Production Authority last month prohibited the erection of any new building with intent for "amusement, recreation, or entertainment purposes...