Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Budapest String Quartet played three entirely different types of quartets in Sanders Theater yesterday afternoon, and when the program was over, it played Schubert's Quartet Movement in C minor as an encore. This concert was the nearest thing to musical perfection I have ever heard...
...Progress. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Elizabeth Slaney called attention to a special feature planned for her new $175,000 drive-in theater: a button system for every car to bring a vendor on the run with a fresh supply of popcorn...
...since 1937, except for a year with Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster running the ill-fated American Repertory Theater, Producer Crawford hunts tirelessly for scripts that offer "something different." Now on her schedule: a melodrama, a musical and a new Paul Green adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, starring John Garfield...
Luck & Coordination. In a way, the Sadler's Wells company was blessed with luck. It had arrived in Manhattan at a time when the theater was at its lowest ebb since the war. The hits of last fortnight, Maxwell Anderson's and Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars, and the Lunts in I Know My Love (see THEATER) had not yet opened. Sadler's Wells was the first smash of the 1949-50 entertainment season...
Kilty's long, knowledgeable essay on the state of drama at Harvard is the best thing in the magazine. The former Theater Workship president vigorously attacks the present lack of official, University-supported drama study. He explains the recent resurgence of good extra-curricular drama here by the return of technically trained veterans who knew enough not to make the usual mistakes of a fledgling group. And he warns that, with the passing of the veterans, Harvard drama will lapse into its pre-war state of hapless amateurism unless steps are taken to set up a program within the College...