Word: astors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HORDES THAT fill the sticky, smok Astor theater to see Jimi Plays Berkeley are rock concert crowds. They shout to friends in the balcony and stomp their feet impatiently. And when the house lights dim--after the usual delay peculiar to rock concerts--matches flare and shoulders hunch throughout the theater. Excited, they sit back to let the Jimi Hendrix Experience wash over them...
...work's appeal came in May of 1849, when on the same evening in New York City there were three simultaneous productions, starring three eminent Macbeths of the time--William Charles Macready, Thomas Hamblin, and Edwin Forrest. These performances led to what has become known as the Astor Place Riot--the worst fracas in theatrical history, besides which even the celebrated free-for-all in Paris at the premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring seems pale. At the final tally in New York, 31 persons were killed and more than 150 injured. Such is the incredible power of Macbeth...
Last week I took the Red Line down into the Combat Zone, to check out an "art film". What I saw was barely filmic, let alone artistic. The Astor Theatre on Tremont Street was showing Private School Girls, a German import. I had not been enticed by the silly ad in the Globe ("Karen made the Dean's List... and a few others"), but by a simple desire to see what skin flicks were all about...
Maltese Falcon. Established John Huston as a director and Humphrey Bogart in the kind of double-edged role that became "Bogey." The third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sidney Greenstreet lead a cast that's perfect right down to Captain Jacobi, molding exciting mystery around the deceptive personality of detective Sam Spade...
Davis admitted that the Coop "was not without fault," and that Astor, a New York-based personnel specialist, had indeed made improvements. He said that she would remain at the Coop "for the foreseeable future...