Word: theater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cake," which will be the fortieth and fall production of the undergraduate players. Performances will be given on the evening of December 10, 11, and 12 in Brattle Hall, and will be followed, as usual, by dancing. It is probable that the play will be repeated in a Boston theater on Saturday evening, December...
...Metropolitan has ten new singers Sopranos are Beatrice Belkin, lately of "Roxy's Gang"; Olga Didur, daughter of Polish Basso Adamo Didur; Parisian Coloratura Lily Pons; Myrna Sharlow, native of Jamestown, N. Dak. Mezzo sopranos: Faina Petrova of the Moscow Art Theater, Maria Ranzow of Vienna. Tenors: Georges Thill of the Paris Opera; Hans Clemens of Berlin. Baritones Claudio Frigerio, native of Paterson, N. J., trained abroad. Basso: Ivar Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...
Both the Drama School and the Naval Science Department had secured rights to use the former gymnasium, which stands in the triangle opposite Memorial Hall, but the former organization had decided to rebuild it into an experimental theater for use in the staging of plays. The board of governors made several overtures to the Naval department heads in an effort to secure the rights to the building this fall but were balked by their co-occupants. The suggestion that the Naval Science Department use the old baseball cage was turned down on the grounds that the men would get their...
Plans for the experimental theater were drawn up this summer by A. L. Love joy, director of the school, and A. P. Segal. They called for a forest age, a curtain less stage, "tormentor towers", placements for lights and light control, storage room, and seating for an audience. Offices for the school, for the director and the art director, and a drafting room were also included...
...more coherent view would be that the Club should govern its choice of plays by an aim to contribute to the Theater; that this end may be obtained by acting pieces never before produced in America; and that when no such plays of outstanding merit are to be had, a revival of a play of another century may often present to contemporary Drama a note which it sadly lacks. The Club may offer a play produced in another century, just as it undertakes plays produced in another country: in both cases American Drama may benefit by the experiment...