Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of its Boston series, "Gold Eagle Guy," the Theater Guild brings forth what is by far the most pretentious and elaborate of its productions to date. A first play by Melvin Levy, it is the story of a robustious young seaman who comes to California in 1862 and remains, fascinated by the lure of yellow gold, to build with unscrupulous hand a vast merchant fleet. If the result falls somewhat short of an epic, the cast and the settings are not to blame...
...Success Story," drama in three acts by John Howard Lawson, second offering of the Group Theater at the Majestic...
Viciously, bitingly controversial is this powerful drama from the pen of John Howard Lawson which the Group Theater has chosen as its second play of the current season. Forcefully conceived and superbly constructed, it tells the story of a Russian Jew in his struggle for power and self expression. Cursed with a driving ambition, an unlimited imagination, and a suppressed poetic fervor, Sol Ginsburg rises ruthlessly to the domination of a great business firm. This mad search for power drives Sol from his love for Sarah Glassman; his restless soul is never satisfied; his confused ideals and desires lead...
Shubert: "America Sings"--musical play which has to do with the life of Stephen Foster and his music. On Tuesday this theater will entertain the opening of "Say When"--a new musical starring the husky voiced Harry Richman...
...real hero of the occasion is the huge stage of the huge Center Theater (3,700 seats) which has been a money-loser for a year as Rockefeller Center's second-string cinema theatre. Producer Max Gordon was obliged to build a new proscenium because the original arch would have dwarfed even his gigantic sets. In the finale, the orchestra pit rises majestically, slides back to join the other half of the orchestra onstage. and the united orchestra keeps on sliding back and back, leaving a huge ballroom with golden chandeliers and white and gold columns, ready...