Word: theater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, he would most certainly fail, yet this is just the type of selling which is embodied in the current practice of block booking of movies. The producers force the exhibitors to contract for a whole block of pictures which they must accept regardless of their merits. The theater owners are unable to oppose this system for they must have a frequent change of program and delays in the arrival of film are fatal to them...
...PROTEST EXPULSION OF I. P. FLORY FOR ACTION AGAINST JIM CROWISM WHEN FISK STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED BY THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION IN SINGING ENGAGEMENT AT LOEW JIM CROW THEATER NASHVILLE STOP WE DEMAND YOUR SUPPORT IN FIGHT FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY HIS IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL REINSTATEMENT...
Ishmael P. Flory, a member of the N. S. L. at Fisk University, was dismissed for having written an article against jim-crowism in a Baltimore negro newspaper. The protest was occasioned by the fact that the Fisk Singers had accepted an engagement in this jim-crow theater which discriminates against negro students...
...Concerto for Orchestra," the work of Walter H. Piston '21, assistant professor of Music, will be played for the first time tonight at Sanders Theater by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Serge Koussevitzky...
...customs in New York is a good example of the sort of thing which occurs when the state turns to the weighing of talent. But governments will try anything and the Actors' Equity may ultimately come to doubt the wisdom of inviting the government to meddle with the theater...