Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every regular concert goer in Cambridge has seen a big, smiling, blue-eyed, old lady take her seat in the front row at Sanders Theater and, after removing a flowered, hat, spread a pink and blue robe over her knees. She listens to the music with her hearing aid held out in front of her and applauds generously with arms outstretched. If it is a Boston Symphony concert, you will see Koussevitzky come down from the podium to shake hands with her. If she is giving the concert herself, which is probably the case, you will watch...
Three members of the HTW are also in the cast, which brings to mind a comparison between this production and those of the Theater Workshop. Only spasmodically during the evening did "Richard III" show the imagination and artistry that ran throughout the last four HTW shows. Most of all, the actors at the Copley do not have much "feel" for what little poetry is given them to work with, a fault they share with the majority of Broadway actors, however...
...recommending "Richard III" it is primarily because it is rarely presented, because the acting and staging of this production is generally superior, and because no matter how you look at it, the Copley Players are offering the best bargain in the professional theater hereabouts...
Complaints against HLU competition come with singular ill grace from the current management of the University Theater. Back before the lush wartime days, the U.T. used to make some effort to cater to the tastes of college audiences, particularly in its Wednesday Review Day programs. Now Review Day itself has been all but abandoned, and its few recent appearances have mostly featured faded M-G-M moronities like "Cass Timberlane" instead of such films as "The Informer...
...hour parking meters garnered a total of $4.30 for the city coffers by 8:30 last night, according to an unofficial report. The advent of the machines Friday marked the end of the popular 19-hour parking privileges in the triangle between Harvard Hall and the University Theater...