Word: theater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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syrup of human kindness. Sweeter and stickier than the milk. See THEATER, The Sound of Music...
...Battler v. the Kid. Having no power outside the authority to allot certain star subsidies, Malraux set out to rehabilitate the French theater. At the Comédie Française, he complained, standards had fallen so low that there were only six performances of Racine to 113 of a couple of frothy farces by a 19th century playwright, Eugene Labiche. "Let us have Labiche," said Malraux tolerantly, "but not at the expense of Racine." From then on, as Paris-Presse put it, the lines were drawn between " 'Kid' Labiche v. 'Battling' Racine." Malraux snatched...
...Saskatchewan." Last week Phoenix proudly opened its brand-new, $500,000 Museum of Art, housing a collection of art valued at $2,600,000 in a handsome, low-lying, stuccoed masonry, glass and aluminum structure on North Central Avenue, designed by Architect Alden Dow. Along with the adjacent Little Theater and Public Library, the new museum now makes Phoenix a center of culture in the desert...
...THEATER...
...Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and twelve-year-old Patty Duke bring such intensity and skill to Child Helen Keller's terrifying but triumphant fight for light that the show, despite its faults, is frequently great theater...