History of Radio
Parts of a stage
Voice
Basic acting terminology
Pantomime
100
The era that ended in 1962.
What is Old Time Radio?
100
This is the part that the audience sits in.
What is the house?
100
This is the pleasantness of one's voice.
What is quality?
100
A story acted out by actors on a stage.
What is a play?
100
Hand and arm movements and facial expressions that help express and idea or emotion.
What are gestures?
200
95% of Americans.
What is the percentage of americans that had a radio by the end of WW2?
200
These are the curtains that move.
What are travellers?
200
How high or how low someone's voice is.
What is pitch?
200
The part of a story that is built up to.
What is a climax?
200
The art form that does not precisely imitate real-life physical action, but give an illusion of that action.
What is mime?
300
Radio was replaced by the popularity of this household appliance.
What is television?
300
This the part of the stage behind the actor (facing the audience).
What is upstage?
300
When a voice lacks inflection.
What is monotone?
300
When a director wants to hear certain actors again, he will hold these.
What are call backs?
300
To move from one place to another.
What is to cross?
400
This actor is credited with making radio popular.
Who is Edward H. Smith?
400
This is the part of the stage on the side that cannot be seen by the audience.
What are the left and right wings?
400
A sound that does not use vocal vords.
What is unvoiced?
400
Something that is implied about a character, but not spoken.
What is subtext?
400
The most famous silent film star, known for his mastery of pantomime.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
500
The radio play that caused nation wide panic.
What is Orson Welles's The War of The Worlds?
500
This is the arch directly above the apron.
What is the procenium?
500
An actor does this to make his voice heard in the back of the auditorium.
What is projection?
500
A backup actor.
What is an understudy?
500
The most famous pantomime artist in history, established a pantomine school in Paris.
Who is Marcel Marceau?
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