Word: haliday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devlin, Margare Webster, Eva LeGallience, John Carradine, Helmut Dantine, Philip Borneuf, Ruth Ford, Nancy Walker, Sarah Allgood, Betty Field, Claire Luce, Jessica Tandy, Hume Gronyn and many more. Sometimes their personalities clashed with those of the stars. In one play, Luise Rainer threw a glass of water at Bryant Haliday. Later, she told him "If I had six months I could teach you to make love." Yet often Brattle and its guests would get along quite well. The late Sarah Allgood stayed up all night with the cast, guzzling gin and singing Irish ballads...
This past summer Haliday discovered that the theatre could make money, if managed correctly. He sliced his cast, and put it on a profit sharing basis instead of the old straight salary. Besides this, he picked plays that would cost less. As a result, he was able to raise salaries and run an efficient front office...
...Someone called up," said Haliday, "and asked me whether I was going to sell the theatre. I answered no, and the voice said, 'Well, you better, if you know what's good...
...Haliday and Cyrus Harvey, Jr., a Boston business man, bought the theatre from its stockholders and plan to remodel it during December...
They intend to install a Trans-Lux projection unit with wide angle cameras and a translucent screen, which can easily be removed. According to Haliday, this will allow them to change the movie house back into a theatre during the summer season...