Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Montreal's Théátre du Gesu was sold out at every performance last week. The darling of the French Canadian theater, an impish comedian named Fridolin (real name: Gratien Gélinas) was on the stage in his new play...
...theater's Helen Hayes said: "I'm going to be hard to win over to television. At my age [48] you don't want to learn a completely new technique. I get all trembly inside just thinking about...
...whom London critics were quick to praise as "the first Englishman to devise a full-length ballet." He had used most of the gay, though sometimes brittle and bony score that Prokofiev had composed on a Kremlin commission during the war, but he had taken nothing of the Bolshoi Theater's spectacular and even longer ballet. A typical difference: while Ashton has his hero stay close to home, the Russians sent their Prince Charming chasing around the world after the glass slipper's owner so that they could have a whirl at Turkish, Spanish and African dances. Said...
There is no lack of either a mind or a theater mind in The Victors-it is as charged with ideas as with harsh melodrama. The fault, in fact, lies just that way-in a too-muchness of everything that becomes a form of melodrama in itself. In piling up too many motives, in piling on too much horror, the play loses its impact. The characters get to be much less human beings than mere Existencils; the ideas lack value because Sartre insists on using them as bombs rather than light bulbs. For all its intellectualism, The Victors...
Offer to Sell. 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. voluntarily agreed to the first part of the Attorney General's suggestion on how moviemakers should divest themselves of part of their theater holdings (TIME, Oct.11). In a proposal filed with a New York federal court, 20th Century-Fox agreed to sell its interest in 260 partly owned theaters. Still to be determined was how many of its 460 wholly owned outlets the company would be allowed to keep...