Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lithe, svelte Fawzia, considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, was every bit as Westernized as her friend Farida. She never learned to like her new home. Mohamed Reza Pahlevi built her a palace in Teheran and cast off two mistresses to show his devotion, but it did no good. Fawzia bore him one child-a girl-but she refused to speak his language or attend public functions...
Havana travelers show little interest in the crowded and expensive Miami winter season. The Cuban season starts in the spring, hits a peak in midsummer (30,000 in June, July, August and September), ends this week. During the summer, Cubans joke that Biscayne Boulevard is merely an extension of Havana's Prado; Cuban business kept a record 225 of Miami Beach's 338 hotels open all this year...
...Henry the Fourth. From that production they have learned two lessons--to wear rubber soles on your sandals and to attach your blades firmly to the hilt; a telling blow from the weapon of Monday Weisgal '45 sent his sword hurting into the wings during the climax of one show last year, where it flattened Jan Farrand...
There may be no theater in this country in another ten years. At present it is a very risky business gamble to produce any show, the cost of production demanding that successful plays possess either a well-known star or a script that doesn't deviate from one of the recognized "sure-fire" formulas. Theater art rarely can figure in the Broadway scheme. If production costs continue to mount, so will ticket prices, and there's no surer way to shut off the theater from the masses than through their pocketbooks...
...trade unions were able to get Congress to grant a charter to the American National Theater and Academy. This meant that ANTA had the same charter-status as the Red Cross and the Smithsonian, and like them, no federal funds. Once a year, ANTA has put on a benefit show in New York, the proceeds of which have gone to the New York Experimental Theater...