Word: playgoers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway playgoer can spot a hit by the line at the box office. For the record, Billboard has denned a hit as a show that runs for more than 100 performances. Last week, by the formal definition, an overdressed underdog of a revue called All for Love (TIME, Jan. 31) became the costliest, floppingest "hit" in U.S. theatrical history...
What makes the picture even prettier, for Miss Webster, is that Impresario Sol Hurok is in it. He has booked the troupe on the same basis as the touring Met or a Marian Anderson recital, has guaranteed minimum gross receipts all along the way. The show will cost the playgoer 60? to $3.60, depending on the local sponsor; in some cases, admission will be free, with a school fund footing the bill...
During the course of the competition, candidates may reveal their opinions on everything from the machinations of the Kremlin to those of University Hall. Furthermore the editorial board, far from being limited to austere and weighty expressions of thought, also provides the opportunity to write such features as the Playgoer, the Moviegoer, the Faculty Profile, and the Music...
...student playgoer and his companion aren't particularly anxious to see a third-hand version of a second-rate Broadway production in which the favorite college wit unsuccessfully attempts an imitation of Monty Wooley or Victor Moore. Nor are they cheered to the point of unharnessing two dollars to listen to a short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success...
...York Times's Brooks Atkinson, an old professional playgoer himself, blandly drew the moral: "The wayward leaders of the Moscow Art Theater at least have learned the importance of being earnest...