Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veterans' Theater Workshop yesterday completed early preparations for their fall production and announced the leading roles which have been cast for Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part...
...Pastures opened on Broadway in 1930, Variety thought it was "dreadfully lacking in box-office ability," predicted that "a ten-week stay ... should be sufficient." Variety was dreadfully wrong. Alexander Woollcott, guessing better in the New Yorker, said it was "the highest peak in the range of the American theater." Brooks Atkinson, in the Times, called it "the divine comedy of the modern theater." The Green Pastures (based on Roark Bradford's stories) won a Pulitzer Prize, ran for five years, played 1,779 performances in 203 cities to nearly two million people, grossed $3,000,000, was turned...
Connelly, bald, portly and more solemn with the years, is very serious about what he considers an exciting chance to develop the "theater as a social force" at Yale. Says he: "I hope my students won't be just writing for Broadway. I hope they'll be writing for the world...
...believe that the best way we can spread the gospel of Christ is through movies." Then Mr. Rank went about his own-and the Empire's-business, which is to spread British movies all over the globe. In a swirl of breakfasts, luncheons, teas, cocktail parties and after-theater snacks, he confabbed with RKO Production Boss Dore Schary, 20th Century-Fox Boss Spyros Skouras, who is an old friend, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Railroader & Picturemaker Robert R. Young, who will show Rank around the U.S. in his private car. They all listened to Mr. Rank with respect...
...century takes the line of development which seems to me . . the right course, it will discover new and more elaborate patterns of a diction now established. ... In this search it might have much to learn from [Milton] the greatest master of freedom within form in our language, outside the theater. ... It might also learn that the music of verse is strongest in poetry which has a definite meaning expressed in the properest words...