Word: play
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby of New York's famous Music Box theater, when the new Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musical play, Lost in the Stars, opens on Oct. 30, theatergoers will see an unusual exhibit of paintings. Its presence there is due to a dramatic coincidence-involving a story that appeared in TIME'S Art department on Aug. 8, and an art-loving TIME-reader, Miss Elizabeth Winston, who read the story in TIME'S Atlantic Edition while on her vacation in Paris...
...thing that's ever happened to me.' "When I returned to New York I got in touch with the Playwrights' Company who, after listening to my story, looking at the paintings, and reading the TIME article, immediately commissioned Gerard Sekoto to do a poster for the play - and in addition, began to make arrangements for the theater-lobby exhibit of Sekoto paintings of his native land...
...skilled a congressional vote counter as Harry Truman knew that Olds had no chance. But since Olds had the undying opposition of the power lobby, the President was able to make a fine grandstand play against "the special interests." No one knew better than Harry Truman that an abrupt order to vote for Olds as a matter of party loyalty was no way to put Olds over. It only stimulated the opposition...
Fifty U.S. Army musicians invaded Columbia University's campus to play Happy Birthday under the window of its president, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, as he reached...
...reason for his success is the quality of his recording artists. To play The Wonderful Violin he got the NBC Symphony Orchestra's Concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff. Another reason: the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and the Dallas Symphony, among others, have found Y.P.R.-commissioned scores (e.g., Alex North's The Waltzing Elephant, Walter Hendl's Little Brass Band, Douglas Moore's The Emperor's New Clothes) good enough for their concert programs...