Word: staging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days later the committee called Elizabeth Bentley for more secret testimony. Nobody worried too much at this stage whether Remington had been a Communist at age 3 or 18. The question that haunted the committee was whether Remington, at age 32-or the three ex-Communists-had committed perjury...
Then the professor turned towards one wing of the Peabody's tiny stage, clapped, and commanded: "Here, Palomilla!" Palomilla nosed out from behind a curtain, a buzzing four-wheeled cart which doggedly trailed a flashlight held by Wiener's assistant. Palomilla made mistakes; it ran back into the curtain once and stalled often. But it acted with at least as much decision and far more speed than an earthworm...
...entrance and box office are on Holyoke Street. Inside, in Big Tree Court, is the stage and room for 180 people. The courtyard with its high brick walls has been dressed for the occasion to give people a mood of fiesta. The floor will be white gravel...
Lucia Chase is a comely green-eyed woman who has been stage-struck since she was seven; she is also a very determined woman. Ten years ago, fed up with Russianized ballet, she went to work on a ballet company whose accent would be American. Today she has one: the U.S.'s best company, Ballet Theatre...
...Chase had talked down the skeptics who told her that a company without "Russe" in the title was impossible. For five years, while Russian Balletomane Sol Hurok had his hands on the company, its American accent became thick with borsch, but Dancer Chase brought Ballet Theatre safely past that stage. She encouraged more ballets by English Choreographer Antony Tudor and let aspiring young U.S. choreographers have a chance. One of them, Jerome Robbins, repaid her by giving Ballet Theatre one of its biggest hits, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22, 1944). The Yankee twang was sharpened even more by commissioning...