Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Family Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., Mutual). Fred Allen in Life's a Circus...
...Theater audiences thrilled to Judith Anderson's portrayal of a woman who murders her own children to avenge her husband in the grisly tragedy...
Blonde Elaine Stritch, who sings a wiggly "Bongo-bongo-bongo" in Broadway's Angel in the Wings and who is also a cousin of Chicago's Samuel Cardinal Stritch, explained to an interviewer why she doesn't consider the theater her "religion" as some actresses do. "It's nice to have something lasting about yourself," said she. "There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater. But you know the show at St. Pat's won't close for a long time. . . . Democracy is lost...
...THEATER...
Five hundred new cinemansions containing half a million new seats were built in 1947-the biggest year of theater construction since the booming '20s. This fact, announced by the trade magazine Boxoffice, seemed cause more for alarm than pride. For in the last three months more & more seats have been empty in U.S. movie houses. Only the showiest spectacles seemed sure to attract the customer's eye; three of Variety's top-grossing six were in Technicolor...