Word: shubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What has been called 'the "Carmen Illusion" about Spain has faded a bit in the past decade. But a bit of the illusion persists these nights on the stage of the Shubert Theater. "A Night in Spain" is a melange of the expected strumming guitars and staccato heel dancing...
...Boiled Egg. A few blocks up Broadway, ballet fans and theatergoers were also getting a chance to see-and whistle at-what the French had to offer. Canny Showman Lee Shubert had brought over a show that Parisians and Londoners had been cheering for the last year: handsome, 25-year-old Roland Petit's lusty new Ballets de Paris...
...Lord (by W. Douglas Home; produced by Lee & J. J. Shubert and Linnit & Dunfee Ltd. by arrangement with John Krimsky) is one of those comedies that are blatantly British and otherwise quiet as mice. Treating of a titled family that has almost gone broke and an England that has gone Labor, it couldn't be more concerned with politics or less concerned about them...
...Angels. As usual, canny old (74) Lee Shubert, whose theatrical real-estate empire controls half of Manhattan's playhouses, was trying to keep ahead of the game. In 1948-49, he knew, radio and television had taken over five legitimate theaters. To keep his houses from gathering cobwebs, "Mister Lee" planned to import at least four plays from London and possibly produce some himself...
...Shubert, 74, who likes plenty of publicity for his 16 Broadway playhouses, was still being shy about his private life. It took a Reno divorce last September to disclose the fact that he had been married for twelve years to former Actress Marcella Swanson, some 30 years his junior. When newsmen learned last week that Shubert had remarried Marcella in February, again in secret, he informed a reporter: "I have no objection to your printing that it is an authentic rumor...