Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mural, on a concave wall in the school's open-air theater, covered a thousand square feet. Standing on the stage in front of it and flailing his arms like an orchestra conductor, Orozco "painted" by means of shouted instructions to half a dozen agile young artists in bosun's chairs. At last, one morning, he spread his arms wide; the mural was finished and the perspiring painters were free to come down and look at what Orozco had done...
...University Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...
...Capriccio for Soulima. This week, in Colorado's magnificent outdoor Red Rocks Theater, which huddles between two giant crags, Stravinsky will conduct the Denver Symphony Orchestra in his own melodious Capriccio for piano and orchestra. To a family man like Stravinsky, this will be a special occasion. While he crouches and flaps on the podium like some grotesque little firebird about to take wing, his pianist son, Soulima, will be the soloist...
...Warsaw audience booed and hooted. Hastily summoned policemen blocked all exits from the theater. Moscow flickered off and the house lights went up, revealing row after row of spectators standing with their backs to the screen...
What did Hughes, the lone wolf, want with RKO? He takes great pains to hide his motives; but no doubt one motive was his hankering for theater outlets controlled by himself. RKO owns 124 theaters. Hughes has had great trouble distributing The Outlaw-that long and vigorously publicized mixture of sex, slapstick and violence-mainly because of censorship, but partly because independent exhibitors were simply afraid of it. To date, it has played only about 40% of its original contracts. In the face of derisive snorts from highbrow critics, Hughes firmly believes that, if distribution obstacles can be overcome...