Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Maxwell Anderson, who once bought advertising space in a newspaper to strike back at the critics who had panned his latest play (Truckline Café in 1946), explained in the New York Herald Tribune why the American theater has gone to pot: "Moving pictures offer a cheap substitute; wars have damaged our morals, our manners and our taste; our whole western civilization grows doubtful of itself . . . But," he added, nursing his old wounds, "when a playwright [is] . . . publicly whipped, flayed alive, drawn, quartered . . . by every theatrical commentator, that's an experience that can drive good playwrights as well...
William Saroyan tackled much the same problem for the New York Times Magazine: "The theater is everything it ought to be right now, but it is more frequently other things...
...theater is what it ought to be when it is first-rate, and it is other things when it is not first-rate...
...desirable for the theater to be what it ought to be because when the theater is not what it ought...
Veritas Films would only have a case if it kept its work within the College. But the club is already making plans for Boston television shows, and hopes to present its first movie, "A Touch of the Times," at a local theater...