Word: theater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring before last the Dramatic Club decided that Cambridge theaters were not satisfactory and hired the Plymouth Theater in Boston for its production. Because the HDC failed to draw a large enough audience, to fill up even a few rows of the theater, it soon found itself thousands of dollars in debt. Worried creditors, instead of badgering HDC members to ante up the money, hounded University Hall for payment, despite the fact that the University had absolutely no legal or moral responsibility for the HDC's debts...
...everyone on the stage of Sanders Theater used his talents with such comprehension and conviction as alto Anne Talbot, last night's Messiah would have been clearly defined and tremendously powerful. But the performance lacked broad conception and sustain-force, not for any lack of ability which was remarkably well distributed; but rather for want of appreciation of what was being related...
...cooperation with Phillips Brooks House, HDC will invite persons of high school age and older to view weeknight performances of the play from the balcony of Sanders Theater. Of the 700 seats in the balcony, 500 will be allocated at each performance to settlement house groups...
...Ballet Theater returned to Boston last Monday night after an absence of two years to let the public see a week of good dancing again. Unlike two years ago, when this same company played to a near-empty theater, the Opera House on opening night was filled to capacity...
There were two Boston premieres in the Ballet Theater's program for Monday. The first of these was Agnes De Mille's "Fall River Legend," which is "suggested by" the story of Lizzie Borden, who "took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks." It is an interesting theater-piece, but made so mostly by the miming of Nora Kaye and the sets of Oliver Smith...