Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David E. Lilienthal, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, will be the main speaker at the annual literary exercises of Harvard Chapter Phi Beta Kappa at 11 a.m. Monday, June 20 in Sanders Theater. The exercises are open to the public...
...other day I went with a friend to see "The Barkleys of Broadway." When we went inside the theater my friend chirped that she "wanted to see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing," and as we left she said "that was just like seeing a good musical, only different...
Outside the theater, a loudspeaker endlessly blared There's No Business Like Show Business while cops rode herd on the crowd. Inside, with standees five deep, a frankly sentimental audience roared welcome to the ghost. Vaudeville had come back to its greatest and last stand, Manhattan's Palace Theater...
...come to stay? With the movie box office sagging, the RKO theater chain -parent of the Palace-fervently hoped so. The movies had done their share to kill off vaudeville, but now the exhumed variety show might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...
This leaves Maureen free for rapture No. 2, a poor young lawyer (Dana Andrews without a beard) who is also a drunkard. Not to be caught napping a second time, Maureen sobers him up, supplies him with bed & board, and helps him to start a puppet theater in the mews. After a stretch of successful puppeteering, the couple's happiness is threatened by the return of Dana's wife from the U.S. But everything is straightened out in time for a jolly family reunion with Maureen's respectable parents down in Surrey...