Word: theater
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berlin first-nighters gathered last week in the Theater am Schiflbauerdarnm for an opening of note. Flimsy programs purchased from elderly ushers announced that they were to witness Happy End, a Comedy of Gang Life in Chicago by Elizabeth Hauptmann with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bert Brecht, German translator of John Gay's immortal Beggars' Opera. An italicized footnote explained: "the comedy is based on a story by Dorothy Lane which appeared in The J. L. S. Weekly, published at St. Louis...
...woman unable to forget the hypnotic eyes of a suitor. But beneath this there is a story told in symbols, a story of the lure of the great mystery of the sea. To blend these two moods is a task requiring great skill. Miss Yurka and her Actors' Theater company meet the demands at times and at others they fail...
...unusual theme, the oppression of the Indian by the whites, padding it with a hopelessly drawn out plot, partly redeeming it with some excellent acting, and coloring it with some highly artificial photography, the directors of "Redskin" have produced the rather mediocre picture now showing at the Metropolitan Theater...
There was some hesitation at first on the part of the ushers whether to look on the stage or in the audience, but a second alarm, obviously in the rear of the theater convinced them that the orchestra was not the guilty party. The search then started off in earnest, the duet becoming a sextet almost coincidentally. To the consternation of some and the amusement of all--excepting, of course, the management--the six alarm clocks were finally found tied to the hatracks under six seats on the main floor of the theater...
...Elizabethan Theater", Professor Murray, Sever...