Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, they call it nrtya (a dance play with integrated songs and music). The ancient Greeks had a name for it, too-but Broadway is still trying to find out how to do it. Oklahoma! was a step in the right direction. Last week Experimental Theatre came closer yet. Composer Jerome Moross and Lyricist John Latouche (Ballad for Americans) had cooked up three song-&-dance plays called Ballet Ballads for Broadway's connoisseurs and critics to sample. The critics found the dance-music-drama experiments "no end diverting and pretty . . . both rare and welcome...
...booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley Co. Also sued was Schine Theater Co. (150 theaters in six states), owned by J. Myer Schine (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a small-town boy who still lives at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop.: 23,000). (In his spare time, Schine also put together...
...associations are virtually unavoidable-as of New Orleans with the Mardi Gras, New Mexico with the Indians, or Chicago with crime-they have not been avoided. Otherwise the actual locale is of little value or even validity: a county fair labeled Wisconsin, for example, smacks a lot more of Oklahoma...
Agnes de Mille had made a flying leap from ballet to Broadway-and Broadway had cheered her dances in Oklahoma!, Carousel and Brigadoon. But could she as gracefully jump back? Last week, in the Metropolitan Opera House, a Ballet Theatre audience was cheering her Rail River Legend, too. The critics joined...
After Sunday night's forum on the Marshall Plan, a quorum was assembled and the annual elections held. Paul L. Wright '49, of Enid, Oklahoma and Dudley was chosen Chairman, succeeding founder Stephen M. Schwebel '50, while Schwebel was shifted to the advisory post of President...