Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learn that Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton had become a smoker of big, black cigars at the opera, particularly in view of the fact that for some months-past she has been in Bermuda, where she still is, with her husband, the scenic designer, who is designing the first legitimate theater on the island. Throck may be burning the midnight oil and smoking big, black cigars, but Juliet, never...
...Manhattan's Loew's State Theater, one of the last strongholds of oldtime four-a-day vaudeville, announced that it was switching to double features...
...delight over The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams (a name he had substituted for his real one, Thomas Lanier Williams, which "sounded too much like William Lyon Phelps") suddenly felt like "a sword cutting daisies" and hurried off to Mexico to work toward his high theatrical goal: "Great theater," says he, "is the highest and purest form of religion...
...takes at least as great (and honorable) talent to entertain children as their elders; and if the children are well pleased, those who take them to the theater are, as a rule, nicely taken care of too-which can rarely be said of the reverse process. An excellent movie for children is the Australian-made Bush Christmas (Rank; Universal-International). A passable one is the American-made Thunder in the Valley (20th Century...
...qualities failed to counterbalance a cheap plot. In The Pearl, published in book form at year's end, Steinbeck reworked an old Mexican folk tale with over-deliberate folksiness. Lion Feuchtwanger's novel of 18th Century France had all the solidity and splendor of an old Orpheum Theater backdrop of Versailles. And Ben Ames Williams, old Satevepost standby, was delivered of a 1,514-page Civil War novel...