Word: staging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...scanner is in its experimental stage, but it has already produced some interesting results - especially in bringing out the depths in dark colors. You can judge its work for yourself by examining closely the large center spread of paintings in next week's color insert...
...evening the Glee Club and Band will join in a Yard concert on the Memorial Church stage. After the concert, seniors, alumni and guests can attend an informal courtyard dance at Lowell House...
...Pitching Horseshoes" last week, Columnist Billy Rose told a touching tale about an actress of bygone days whom he called Harriet Reeves. According to Rose, she was a prima donna who made many enemies by her scene-stealing and slights before a weak heart forced her to quit the stage. Then, told that she had only a few months to live, Harriet Reeves contritely determined to give an elaborate party for the people she had wronged. But on the appointed night "last summer," nobody came. After two hours of humiliating waiting, Harriet Reeves had a heart attack and died...
...David Heilweil & Derrick Lynn-Thomas) revives on Broadway an old favorite of the '20s, while familiarizing Broadway with a new favorite of the provinces-theater-in-the-round. Both the play and the production have drawbacks, but both come off pleasantly enough. Performed on an arena-like stage with the audience at its elbow and on all four sides, Broadway's theater-in-the-round at times resembles theater-in-the-rough. But the illusion of life is quite as strong as with orthodox staging; what is diminished is the illusion of theater...
When she came onstage in the first-act church scene, carrying flowers, she looked like a faded portrait out of the 1920s. Amidst wild applause, she gazed artfully at the upper tiers; then, after putting her flowers on the altar, she walked slowly to the front of the stage, and kneeling on one knee, bowed to the floor. The ovation lasted for two minutes...