Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Antony and Cleopatra (by William Shakespeare; produced by Katharine Cornell) is one of the world's greatest plays and the theater's greatest problems. It does far more than celebrate one of the most famous of all love affairs; more even than trace the downfall of one of the most powerful figures of history through his dalliance with one of the most passionate. Antony and Cleopatra is a swarming and forever-shifting chronicle of conspiracies and conquests, of realms and empires. In amplitude, it is a kind of War and Peace among plays; and the knotty problem...
...Austin, station KTBC gently but firmly resisted an eager offer from Cook's Funeral Home to buy 30-second commercials before & after the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of "Nobody Lives Forever...
Rank set the stage by announcing a proposed merger which, in effect, will give theater managers control over film production. Odeon Theaters, Lt., Britain's third largest theater chain (350 houses), has offered to pay ?1,225,000 for control of Rank's privately owned producing and distributing company, General Cinema Finance Corp...
Thirty years later, the mission was taken up by a man who had played the organ between movies at Manhattan's Capitol Theater. Jacob Maurice Coopersmith, a stubby, dedicated, bustling man with thick eyeglasses, caught the fever too. He caught it quite by accident. At Harvard, working on a Ph.D. thesis, he had trouble finding his way through Chrysander's 100 volumes of the Handel "complete" works: they had no thematic index. He decided to make one. After two years at it he had caught up with Chrysander, but had accounted for only two-thirds of Handel...
Television newsreel scoops will not make much difference until many thousands of additional sets are in operation, but the demand is growing. One televiser was happy to overhear a newsreel theater patron complain: "Why, that's old stuff, I saw it last week on television...