Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater, from 1,000 to 2,000 capacity, "with adequate, stage facilities and movie equipment...
Viewed simply as a divertissement competing for attention with local movies and plays, Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Lorraine," which last night began a week's stay at the Brattle Theater, is certainly worth a visit. To regard the current offering of the Cambridge Summer Theater otherwise, is to get involved in bootless speculation on whether Bergman wouldn't have quirked an eyebrow here, or whether Shaw didn't render the line more felicitously there...
...university's first annual playwrighting festival, C.U. announced, will be sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and Broadway's American National Theater & Academy. The stage group will send lecturers, the cinema organization will lend a big movie star (none picked so far) to each of the seven festival productions. To get the project rolling, the Motion Picture Academy assigned one of Hollywood's best known front-office hands, Anita ("The Face") Colby, to work with C.U.'s Father Gilbert Vincent Hartke (TiME, March...
Then the scrofulous old curtain rolled up and all was forgiven in a gusty belly laugh. Edward Everett Horton, the 60-year-old grandpa of summer theater, blustered onstage and stood staring dazedly at the audience...
...seat, there is too much money to be made with proven plays and proven stars. Money is also made from stage-struck youngsters who pay up to $500 a season for the privilege of collecting tickets, lugging scenery about and memorizing one-line roles. Twenty-five new theaters and some 175 old houses, about half of them employing Equity actors, are out to make it. To draw the crowds, most theater managers are trying to buy big Broadway and Hollywood names for their barbershop-window posters. Most sought-after star: Tallulah Bankhead. Most popular plays: Dream Girl and Joan...