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Word: theatered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firm a tentative set of blueprints based on the Council's suggestions. The plans sent cold shivers of quizzical delight up the spines of those boosters who got a look. Shepley's fertile imagination had produced sketches of a six-story high main building connecting to a 2000-capacity theater wing. It was all wonderful, but like peace, how could it be realized...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Three-Way War Memorial Recommendation Veils Near Coup for Plaque, Scholarship Fund | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

Existentialism, the European theater, an American complacency all came in for discussion in Williams' address. He declared that existentialism is nothing new, but that what is important is "that a whole continent could be jolted into grasping such a philosophy. The European theater has shown a hunger and a spirit that is lacking on the American stage," Williams concluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playwright Williams Sees Stage Remedy In National Theaters | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

Playwright Tennessee Williams called for a state theater as the only remedy for the ills besetting the American stage, yesterday, before an audience of ticket-holders to the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "An Enemy of the People...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playwright Williams Sees Stage Remedy In National Theaters | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

...prize winning author, whose latest work, "A Street Car Called Desire," opened at the Wilbur Monday, told his New Lecture Hall audience that a federal theater has as much, if not more value to this country than schools and museums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Playwright Williams Sees Stage Remedy In National Theaters | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

Yaleman Cullman has applied his business talents to many projects. During the depression, he became receiver for the famed Roxy Theater and put it on its feet. He is Broadway's best-known "angel," has helped back twelve hit plays. When a wire was sent asking him whether he would accept an appointment as commissioner of the Authority, Cullman characteristically replied: "Sure, but what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Out of the Stack | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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