Word: season
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, Director Max Leavitt of the Lemonade Opera Company, who in three years had dug up such old and new operas as Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona and Prokofiev's The Duenna (TIME, June 14, 1948), was scratching his head for a surprise for his 1949 season. A friend told him about Haydn's 172-year-old dramma giocoso II Mondo della Luna (The World of the Moon), wherein a charlatan astronomer and some frolicsome servants persuade a fat, foolish father to bless the marriage of his daughter to a poet by taking...
...muggy season was setting in for Broadway's 18 surviving shows, and the U.S. theater got ready again last week to take to the country. By month's end, in such unlikely pastures as Fish Creek, Wis. and Woods Hole, Mass., more than 200 summer playhouses will sprout across the land. By Labor Day, they should yield a multimillion-dollar harvest-and more acting jobs than three Manhattan seasons...
Hardy Perennials. Already busy, milking her Broadway hit and getting the season's top salary ($5,000 a week), is Tallulah Bankhead in Private Lives. Summer Veteran Edward Everett Horton, who has played Springtime for Henry perennially (at a profit of about $1,000,000), will give the old comedy a rest in favor of Present Laughter. Some of the other country hands: Helen Hayes (in a tryout of William McCleery's Good Housekeeping), Paul Lukas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Le Gallienne, Basil Rathbone, Mady Christians, Ann Harding, Elisabeth Bergner, Joan Blondell, Bert Lahr, Kay Francis...
Proceed wifh Caution. Once celebrated as a playwrights' laboratory (the Provincetown, Mass. Players launched Eugene O'Neill), today's summer theater is in no mood to gamble on experiments. Few of its impresarios will try out more than one play this season, and then with a sharp eye on Broadway-in-the-fall. Last year, out of 81 tryouts in 54 playhouses, three plays actually got to Manhattan and one (The Silver Whistle) managed to stick...
...great year next season," this character began. "If Lowenstein can put on twenty pounds this summer, and if Moffie doesn't break a leg, our backs ought to be among the snapplest in the East, but of course with Godin out of the picture, I don't know where Stuffy will find another real stopper on the firing line. As for Bolles, of course, we don't need to worry--Jaakko has some very fine young freshmen coming up, you know...