Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago the Chinese Cultural Theater Group of Shanghai began a goodwill tour of the U.S. (they have already played San Francisco and Chicago, will next swing through the South) on a financial shoestring. The company left China with only $37,500 in cash and props, is now down to a daily food allotment of $3 apiece-in Manhattan. The one-night Broadway stand did not up the kitty much: a heavy sleet storm kept the house down. But those who came stayed awake...
...tricks of his own meddling wife. All this becomes far too contrived to be credible, and not cleverly enough contrived to be fun. Mr. McCleery writes as an intelligent man of good will, but he tackles too many subjects for one play, and tackles them too undramatically for the theater. It is when Parlor Story has least to say that it comes most to life...
...passed through successive estrangements from bourgeois life. At each removal he becomes more conscious of his spiritual liberation but also of his solitude. He broods upon his wolflike nature until only suicide is left. But in the course of a lonely ramble he is enticed into the "magic theater" of postwar German gaiety-a fantasy of despairing brilliance in vices and anodynes. Here he finds that self-knowledge is the knowledge of multiple selves. Though he falls in love with a courtesan, thinking himself happy, his disintegration proceeds. The end of his madness is not suicide but murder...
...Variations for Piano and Orchestra" by Nicholas Van Slyck 1G will be the featured composition at the Pierian Sodality concert on April 23 in Sanders Theater as the winner of the orchestra's competition for student musical works. Van Slyck, student of Walter Piston, will have another of his works introduced by the Boston Civic Orchestra within a week of the first concert...
Forcibly ejected from the cold and uncompromising confines of a cellar in the House Squash Courts, the Veterans Theater Workshop yesterday whipped through its first complete rehearsal of "Saint Joan" in the luxurious plush of the Hotel Somerset's Princess Room...