Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, the Paramount Theater threw its audience into an uneasy uproar by flashing on the screen, without warning, a television picture of the audience at the Paramount Theater, watching itself being televised...
Twenty years ago Chávez had rounded up musicians from Mexico City dance halls, movie theaters and churches to form Mexico's first symphony orchestra, made the classics almost as well known as La Cucaracha. Following his lead, four more orchestras started up in the provinces. Chávez' troubles began when his friend President Miguel Alemán asked him to help set up an Institute of Fine Arts to direct Mexico's music, art and theater...
...Century. The roads played up different tourist catches. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad's Hiawatha had its glassed-in observation blister (see cut), the Pennsylvania Railroad's Jeffersonian, a newsreel theater and day nursery. Most had lounges, coffee shops, seats of rubber foam, barbershops. All had wide fogproof windows and cocktail bars...
Died. Susan Glaspell, 66, little-theater pioneer, novelist, and Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Alison's House, 1930); of virus pneumonia; in Provincetown, Mass. She and first husband George Cram ("Jig") Cook led the experimentalists' rebellion against Broadway commercialism at their ramshackle Wharf Theater in Provincetown, gave Eugene O'Neill's first plays their first performances, helped found Manhattan's famed Provincetown Players in 1916, and wet-nursed the little-theater movement...
...there are appropriate performances by Ladd as the animated ramrod and by Miss Reed, the screen's All American Nice Girl. Most of the military people, however, are such Galahads, and most of the male civilians are such slobs, that ordinary men will probably slink out of the theater with their hats over their faces...