Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the theater-by-theater picture...
...Including its new London edition (TIME, March 10), Partisan Review sells only 7,600 copies, at 60?. Now the editors hope to hit 20,000 in the U.S. and Europe. A slightly larger format, more art work (in color) and photographs, regular departments on music, art and the theater, and "letters" from Europe's capitals may help. But Phillips and Rahv plan to keep the Review uncompromisingly a magazine for what it considers the "intelligentsia," will not desert its long-standing partisanship of "radical values and literary standards...
Rehearsal on Skates. A gusty woman who has been known to roller skate from her midtown club to the theater for rehearsals, Marie sits in absolute quiet for half an hour before each show to store up enough intensity to project the sinister malevolence of Madame Flora across the footlights. A Roman Catholic, she solemnly says "thank you" to the statuette of the Madonna on the stage when the final curtain is down. Says she: "I am having the time of my life. Each night I dedicate the performance to somebody-a friend, my dead husband. Then I think...
...only safe hours to hit the Keith Memorial Theater these days. At any other time you are likely to run into a foul little film called "Child of Divorce," whose buck-toothed protagonist is the most trenchant argument yet for birth control. But though the main feature involves another set of buck teeth, this time attached to Miss Tierney, they are fairly easily forgotten in the whimsical flow of this Anglicized Twentieth Century Fox picture...
...standards, they may gain some encouragement from seeing our better producers learning a few things from those English. Except for the lack of a leading actress who is not a nonentity, "The Ghest and Mrs. Muir" might very well be one of the better imports seen around the Exeter Theater, and it is just possible that the American public will take this rare nectar willingly. Rex Harrison could easily be addressing the producer of the picture when he tells Gene Tierney through his beaver, "My dear, I like you. You have spunk...