Word: shubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Mendelssohn's "Laudati Puerl" as their featured chorale, the Radcliffe singers presented works representing both modern and classical composers. Purcell's "Nymphs and Shepherds" was the opening piece and was followed by works by Shubert, Gluek, Sweelinck, and Constantini...
...publishing a story that he had "shortchanged" some performers 74? apiece on their rehearsal pay, veteran Broadway Producer Jacob J. ("Jake") Shubert sued the theatrical trade paper Variety for libel, asked $100,000 damages...
...eager to see more of the legitimate theatre. The answer to their hunger is not a number two company of "Blossom Time," travelling up and down the country till the blossoms fade. Broadway professes to satisfy the "road" in this manner; but a worn-out road company of Shubert actors is not the solution...
There are a great many cities that could and would support such a Repertory organization, were it formed. The great difficulty that impedes such a plan is that the Shubert Brothers of Broadway control practically every weather-proof theatre east of the Mississippi, and would set the rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly...
...boys and girls are queens together at the Shubert Theatre for the next two weeks, and it's all feasting and fun. That theatre fast we've endured is over at long last; "All's Fair," the new Dwight Deere Wiman musical comedy, has hove into town. If you're interested, the title is taken from the old saw about "All's fair in love and war." And certainly the doings on the Shubert stage are equitable enough. It's a definite pleasure to report that the show is a sharp buy. All the attributes of a top musical...