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...cubbyhole office in Manhattan last week came news of the biggest deal in theatrical real estate since the purchase of land for the Radio City Music Hall. The deal: Shubert Brothers had bought the plot between Manhattan's 44th and 45th Streets-just west of Times Square-on which sit four of the busiest Broadway theaters (the Shubert, Broadhurst, Booth and Plymouth...
...reported price of $3,500,000, paid to the William Waldorf Astor estate, the Shuberts also got famed "Shubert Alley," the narrow thoroughfare through the block, in which Lee Shubert's big Cadillac is usually parked. Unlike the Radio City deal, which promised a vast change in the landscape, this one promised little. The four theaters, built and owned by the Shuberts, are also operated by them. The Shuberts, who would have lost them when their lease expires in 1952, reportedly bought them because movie companies were eying the property. The deal strengthened their position as the biggest, oldest...
...Copley, Robert E. Sherwood's "The Road to Rome" involves funny business in the field of Rome and sex. "Finian's Rainbow," at the Shubert, is a sure bet musical if you can get the seats...
...Romance (adapted from Edward Sheldon's Romance; music by Sigmund Romberg; book & lyrics by Rowland Leigh; produced by the Messrs. Shubert) gives the effect, with almost none of the enjoyment, of a huge Thanksgiving dinner. It is operetta at its most oppressive. The audience would not have too bad a time if it simply (like Joan of Arc) heard voices; the Sigmund Romberg songs are conventionally melodious and the singing is quite up to snuff. But otherwise the audience has a great deal to endure...
...Oyly Carte Opera Company began its third week at the Shubert last night, offering that well-tested favorite of high schools, little theaters, and community singing groups--"H.M.S. Pinafore." Like the two previous Gilbert and Sullivan works that we have had the unusual pleasure of seeing, "Pinafore" displayed the competence and professional quality that comes only with long, long experience. The production, though it may have stopped short of absolute perfection here and there, certainly should have been enough to satisfy all but the most picayune faultfinder...