Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standees in Manhattan's spacious, echoey Center Theater, and watched the red velours curtains close in front of the shadowy vault scene of Verdi's Aïda. He had a right to be pleased. For the 150 members of his troupe, it was merely the last perform-ance of another season, but for Fortune Gallo it was a milestone. His San Carlo Opera Company had wound up its 30th season, giving the U.S. public opera at popular prices, and without deficits...
Carrying placards describing their part in the war effort, members of the War Service Committee will march, besides representatives of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, Several Army bands have promised to perform and Mayor Tobin is trying to secure the Harvard Band as well...
...glamorous Miss Kay, who is reputed to possess Broadway's most dazzling legs, will be the first perform from the evening's heterogeneous conglomeration of the theatrical world. The songstress will do several numbers in her well-known "Bicycle Built for Two" style. Later in the evening the Jones Brothers will supply contrast to this gay nineties revival with a jam session for those who like to stomp and shout while they listen...
...Mimic to Perform...
...gestures with jazz rhythms; Miriam La Velle does exciting acrobatic dances. But by far the best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who dump loads of bricks, clamber up & down ladders, act tight, sham dead, ride around on scooters and perform on the trapeze deserve the rare compliment that they might have been invented by Walt Disney...