Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Croatian, with earphones providing instant English translation. Aleksandar Popovic's Bora, the Tailor, Alfred Jarry's King Vbu, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Roger Vitrac's Victor or the Children Take Over will run in repertory in the Forum Theater through July...
...water is more bracing. They still spend weekends, however, at their country home at Orvilliers outside Paris or their farm at Cajarc in the south of France. Pompidou reads and tends his rosebushes, his wife practices her horsemanship. In the city, they occasionally go to first nights at the theater and constantly browse through the galleries for new paintings. Those that are not at the Matignon decorate their six-room, Louis XV- and XVI-furnished apartment overlooking Notre Dame Cathedral from Paris' fashionable and romantic Ile Saint-Louis...
Rough Treatment. The dissatisfaction stems in part from the army's broken promise to hold presidential elections in 1966, its cancellation of the political rights of hundreds of Brazilians, and its use of censorship to keep a tight rein on TV, movies and theater. Moreover, Brazil's minimum wage is a meager $39 a month...
Died. Russell V. Downing, 67, president and director from 1952-66 of New York's Radio City Music Hall, world's largest indoor movie theater (6,200 seats); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the 36 years of its existence, Downing was proud to point out, the Music Hall not only kept to the "family movie" formula, but attracted more than 200 million paying customers at a rate of 6,000,000 a year-more than the annual number of visitors to the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and United Nations combined...
...Lyons and its director, Roger Planchon, have scandalized French traditionalists by taking gross liberties with the classics to give them contemporary credence. A U.S. audience is more likely to feel the faint shock of cultural lag. Freshly attuned to the theater of tribal intimacy, with its skin-to-skin actor-audience confrontations and its stereophonic barrage of sound, a playgoer may be startled to see a stylized drama in which each line is pruned, each gesture sculptured, each scene framed...