Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little basement theater in Prague was packed and jammed with Czech bobby-soxers, lured there by the Ministry of Information in hopes of hearing a two-hour program of Bing Crosby records...
...Orleans standbys that Louis played for them. In Copenhagen, the director of the State Symphony Orchestra dismissed afternoon rehearsal so that his musicians could go and hear Satchmo's golden trumpetings of High Society and Royal Garden Blues. In Turin, Armstrong worshipers squatted or knelt in the theater aisles when all seats were filled. Rome's welcome was the biggest yet. Armstrong played three sellout concerts, got embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum, he raised his gold-plated trumpet, gave out with a honey-toned Sleepy Time Down South. Seated...
Myths & Marvels. Every half-hour a small group of museum visitors was ushered into a gallery that had been made over to look like a gimcracked Victorian theater. The antique chandelier dimmed, and on stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy...
...sounds of the birds and the brook in the beginning were created with great peace and restraint, and at the next moment Sanders Theater was rocked by the loud and wild dance. Enormous credit is due to Georges Laurent, first flutist, whose performance was inspired...
...Higginson founded the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he stipulated that several concerts each year must be played in Cambridge for the benefit of the Harvard community. Tuesday night marked the beginning of this year's Cambridge season, and that part of the Harvard community lucky enough to get into Sanders Theater was certainly benefited immeasurably...