Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band not only arrived late for a Capital steps performance but also saw its expected financial coup through the Virginia hitherlands fail to materialize. Based on the familiar Winter Song, a new Dartmouth medley will highlight the October 24 program in Sanders Theater...
Tallulah Banlchead, the theater's pin wheel from Alabama, was "resting comfortably" with neuritis at a Chicago hospital; Private Lives closed down for a fortnight...
Command Decision is hard-hitting theater, full of mailed conflict and scrappy talk. What it hits hardest, however, is all sentimental attitudes toward war, all evasions of how damnable it can be, all attempts to break it up neatly into so many parts hell and so many parts humanitarianism. But there is nothing doctrinaire or diagrammatic about the play. Playwright Haines (himself an Air Forces veteran) writes something that could easily have happened; and his characters are people, not mere points of view...
...theater, during the early 19th Century, took orders from the audience, and "bad acting, like bad singing at La Scala, Milan, was punished on the spot with hoots and hisses, often with apples, oranges and sticks. Sometimes . . . the manager would bring the offender forward, and he would humbly apologize and promise to do better next time." When famed Theater Manager John Philip Kemble raised his prices at the new Covent Garden, rioting theatergoers forced Kemble to restore the old prices. Actor Macready had to apologize for appearing in a part that did not suit...
...averted, the better their chances of winning. The Kremlin is therefore doing its best-within relative limits-to stave off war. Nevertheless . . . the Russian leaders have already established their plan for war.... One primary conviction dominates all the planning of the Red Army General Staff: that the decisive theater of military operations will eventually be the Far East...