Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filed their annual pleas for longer Pullman berths and higher telephone booths, crowned Marie Van Leuren, 6 ft. 1½ in., as "Queen of Height, 1948" (see cut). ¶An ad in the Miami Herald said: "Unborn child for adoption. Call 5-4955." ¶Washington's only legitimate theater, the National, closed its doors. Actors Equity Association had forbidden its members to play there after Aug. 1 unless the theater lifted its ban against selling seats to Negroes. The National refused. It will reopen next month as a movie house...
...University Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Dramatization of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms...
...Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...
Died. Leo Bulgakov, 59, Russian-born actor-producer and onetime member of the famed Moscow Art Theater; of coronary thrombosis; in Binghamton, N.Y. Bulgakov left Russia for a U.S. tour in 1923, staged highly acclaimed Broadway and Yiddish Theater adaptations of The Cherry Orchard and The Lower Depths, never went back to Moscow...
...camera into the middle of the action. He took closeups, crosscuts, angle shots and dissolves. His camera was alive, picking off shots; then he built the shots into sequences, the sequences into tense, swift narrative. For the first time the movies had a man who realized that while a theater audience listened a movie audience watched. "Above all. . . I am trying to make you see," Griffith said...